[Tutor] Encoding

[Giorgio]

Ops, i have another update:

string = u"blabla"

This is unicode, ok. Unicode UTF-8?

Thankyou

2010/3/3 Giorgio <anothernetfellow at gmail.com>

> Ok.
>
> So, how do you encode .py files? UTF-8?
>
> 2010/3/3 Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>
>
> Giorgio wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  Depends on your python version. If you use python 2.x, you have to use
>>>>> a
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> u before the string:
>>>>
>>>> s = u'Hallo World'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok. So, let's go back to my first question:
>>>
>>> s = u'Hallo World' is unicode in python 2.x -> ok
>>> s = 'Hallo World' how is encoded?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Since it's a quote literal in your source code, it's encoded by your text
>> editor when it saves the file, and you tell Python which encoding it was by
>> the second line of your source file, right after the shebang line.
>>
>> A sequence of bytes in an html file should be should have its encoding
>> identified by the tag at the top of the html file.  And I'd  *guess* that on
>> a form result, the encoding can be assumed to match that of the html of the
>> form itself.
>>
>> DaveA
>>
>>
>
>
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