a simple unicode question
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Mon Oct 19 15:35:42 EDT 2009
George Trojan schrieb:
> A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am
> trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is
> "iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did
> >>> encoding='iso-8859-1'
> >>> q=s.decode(encoding)
> >>> q.split()
> [u'48\xc2\xb0', u"13'", u'16.80"', u'N']
> >>> r=q.split()[0]
> >>> int(r[:r.find(unichr(ord('\xc2')))])
> 48
>
> Is there a better way of getting the degrees?
Instead of this rather convoluted way to specify a degree-sign, better do
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
...
int(r[:r.find(u"°")])
Please note that the utf-8-encoding has *nothing* todo with your string
- it's just the source-file encoding. Of course your editor must use
utf-8 for saving the encoding. Or you can use any other one you like.
Diez
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