[Tutor] Problem with input() and unicode string

[Huy Ton That]

You can do:

input(unicode('Introduce el año:', 'latin-1').encode('latin-1'))

Maybe someone could explain it better than I can.

HTH,

Huy

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Alex <abccbg at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello, I have a problem with this code:
>
> # -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
> year = u'año, ò, ó, ç'
> print year
> year = input(u'Introduce el año:')
> print year
> raw_input()
>
> The first print statement works as expected, both in IDLE and when
> double-clicking the file for a console view.
> The second one works in IDLE, but just flashes by when double-clicking the
> file, due to an error report I can't see.
> I believe the problem is that input prompt doesn't support unicode strings,
> which means I can't use my language for prompts?
> Could someone please tell me how to fix it or provide a workaround?
> Thanx.
>
> Using Python 2.7 under win32.
>
>
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