a simple unicode question
George Trojan
george.trojan at noaa.gov
Tue Oct 20 13:56:21 EDT 2009
Thanks for all suggestions. It took me a while to find out how to
configure my keyboard to be able to type the degree sign. I prefer to
stick with pure ASCII if possible.
Where are the literals (i.e. u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}') defined? I found
http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt
Is that the place to look?
George
Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Mark Tolonen wrote:
>>> Is there a better way of getting the degrees?
>>
>> It seems your string is UTF-8. \xc2\xb0 is UTF-8 for DEGREE SIGN. If
>> you type non-ASCII characters in source code, make sure to declare the
>> encoding the file is *actually* saved in:
>>
>> # coding: utf-8
>>
>> s = '''48° 13' 16.80" N'''
>> q = s.decode('utf-8')
>>
>> # next line equivalent to previous two
>> q = u'''48° 13' 16.80" N'''
>>
>> # couple ways to find the degrees
>> print int(q[:q.find(u'°')])
>> import re
>> print re.search(ur'(\d+)°',q).group(1)
>>
>
> Mark is right about the source, but you needn't write unicode source
> to process unicode data. Since nobody else mentioned my favorite way
> of writing unicode in ASCII, try:
>
> IDLE 2.6.3
> >>> s = '''48\xc2\xb0 13' 16.80" N'''
> >>> q = s.decode('utf-8')
> >>> degrees, rest = q.split(u'\N{DEGREE SIGN}')
> >>> print degrees
> 48
> >>> print rest
> 13' 16.80" N
>
> And if you are unsure of the name to use:
> >>> import unicodedata
> >>> unicodedata.name(u'\xb0')
> 'DEGREE SIGN'
>
> --Scott David Daniels
> Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
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