[Tutor] unicode help

[Marilyn Davis]

Aye, thank you.  I do like that syntax better.

Sometimes it's time to just quit and try again later when I'm not so
frustrated.  That's when I make silly bugs.

But, we got it!

Thank you again.  I think it's a nifty hack.

M


On Sat, May 28, 2011 3:53 pm, Alexandre Conrad wrote:

> Marilyn,
>
>
> You miss-typed the line, it should have a semicolon right after the
> word "coding", such as:
>
> # coding: utf-8
>
>
> not
>
> # coding utf-8
>
>
> as you showed from your file.
>
> The syntax suggested syntax # -*- coding: utf8 -*- by Martin is
> equivalent, but I always have a hard time remembering it from the top of my
> head when I create a new Python file. So I just use: # coding: utf-8
>
>
>
> 2011/5/28 Marilyn Davis <marilyn at pythontrainer.com>:
>
>> Thank you Alexandre for your quick reply.
>>
>>
>> I tried your suggestion (again) and I still get:
>>
>>
>> ./uni.py
>>  File "./uni.py", line 20
>> SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xa5' in file ./uni.py on line 21, but
>>  no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for
>>  details
>>
>> Can you suggest a different encoding?  Or a way to figure out what it
>> should be?
>>
>> Or am I making and re-making some stupid mistake?
>>
>>
>> I run on emacs under SUSE.
>>
>>
>> Marilyn
>>
>>
>> p.s.  The code is now:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>> # coding utf-8
>> '''Unicode handling for 2.6.
>> '''
>> class Currency(float):    def __str__(self):
>>        value = self.__class__.symbol +  float.__str__(self)
>>        return value
>>
>>
>> class Yen(Currency):    symbol = unichr(165)
>>
>>
>> def main():    y = Yen(100)
>>    print unicode(y)
>>
>>
>> main()
>>
>> """
>> ¥100.0
>> """
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 2:21 pm, Alexandre Conrad wrote:
>>
>>
>>> When Python loads your file from your file system, it assumes all
>>> characters in the file are ASCII. But when it hits non-ASCII
>>> characters (currency symbols), Python doesn't know how to interpret
>>> it. So you can give Python a hint by putting at the top of your file
>>> the encoding of your file:
>>>
>>> After the shebang (1st line), add the following comment:
>>> # coding: utf-8
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (or whatever encoding your file is saved to, I think it depends on
>>> your file system, usually utf-8 by default on Linux)
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/5/28 Marilyn Davis <marilyn at pythontrainer.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm still on Python 2.6 and I'm trying to work some unicode
>>>> handling.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've spent some hours on this snippet of code, trying to follow PEP
>>>>  0263,
>>>> since the error tells me to see it.  I've tried other docs too and I
>>>> am still clueless.
>>>>
>>>> The code works, except for the comment at the end.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would be very grateful for some help.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>>>> '''Unicode handling for 2.6.
>>>> '''
>>>> class Currency(float):    def __str__(self):        value =
>>>> self.__class__.symbol +  float.__str__(self)        return value
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> class Yen(Currency):    symbol = unichr(165)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> class Pound(Currency):    symbol = unichr(163)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> def main():    y = Yen(100)    print unicode(y)
>>>>    p = Pound(100)
>>>>    print unicode(p)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> main()
>>>>
>>>> """
>>>> ¥100.0
>>>> £100.0
>>>> """
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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