Encoding of Python 2 string literals
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 08:39:56 EDT 2015
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:17 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to know encoding of string (bytes) literal
> defined in source file? For example, given that source:
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> from library import Entry
> Entry("текст")
>
> Is there any way for Entry() constructor to know that
> string "текст" passed into it is the utf-8 string?
I don't think so. However, if you declare that to be a Unicode string,
the parser will decode it using the declared encoding, and it'll be a
five-character string. At that point, it doesn't matter what your
source encoding was, because the characters entered will match the
characters seen.
Entry(u"текст")
ChrisA
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