[Tutor] python3 - °F/°C printing those degree signs

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 02:32:58PM -0700, Evuraan wrote:
> Greetings!  How to print °F/°C etc in python3?


In Python 3, you should be able to do:

    print('°F/°C')

directly. If you can't, your configuration is broken.

If you are including this is a .py file, make sure your text editor is 
set to use UTF-8 as the encoding.


> (This works on a WSL):

WSL?


> ~$ python3
> Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 17 2016, 17:05:23)
> [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import platform
> >>> platform.release()
> '4.4.0-17134-Microsoft'

Microsoft Linux?


> >>> print('\u00b0'+ " F")
> ° F


You don't need to use escape codes for this, but if you do, try this:

    print('\u00b0 F')

 
> Elsewhere, it no longer seem to work:
> 
>  $ python3
> Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01)
> [GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import platform
> >>> platform.release()
> '4.4.0-21-generic'

What is this? OS X (Macinintosh), Windows, Windows with cgwin, Linux, 
some other Unix?

What does os.name return?


> >>> print('\u00b0'+ " F")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xb0' in
> position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Until now, I would have said that error is literally impossible in 
Python 3.5.

Unless you have made a copy-and-paste error, and aren't showing us the 
correct output, I can't imagine how you are getting that error. This is 
very weird.

Hmmm... thinking... what do these return?

sys.getdefaultencoding()

sys.stdout.encoding



-- 
Steve