[Pythonmac-SIG] I know this is a stupid question but................

[Bill Bedford]

At 9:53 am +0200 09/08/01, Just van Rossum wrote:

>Bill Bedford wrote:
>
>>  How do I get python to print a literal '=A3' -- that's a pound sign,
>>  chr \163, unicode \xa3
>>
>>  All I want to do is print the price in may catalogue.......
>
>   print chr(163)
>
>works for me. If it doesn't: maybe the font you're using doesn't 
>contain a pound
>symbol? Or do you have unicode string? In which case print 
>s.encode('macroman')
>should work.

Doesn't work

>>>  x =3D '=A3'
>>>  x
'\xa3'
>>>  chr(163)
'\xa3'
>>>  x.encode('macroman')
'\xa3'
>>>  x=3D u'=A3'
>>>  x
u'\xa3'
>>>  x.encode('macroman')
'\xa3'


Is there some thing in my set up that will prevent it working PM 
7200, OS8.6, Carbon Python?