http://docs.python.org/library/codecs.html#standard-encodings you can use these with string encode and presumably with ''.decode too...
btw sorry I didn't cc to the list last time i forgot how oddly this list is set up, its a right pita! --- On Fri, 17/7/09, Bertrand Kintanar <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bertrand Kintanar <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [pygtk] Problem in fetching Unicode from URL and displaying it > in PyGTK widget > To: "Chris Camacho" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, 17 July, 2009, 12:59 PM > On 7/17/09 7:53 PM, Chris Camacho > wrote: > > hmmm... > > > > being that > > > > print '\\' > > > > displays > > > > '\' > > > > isn't that a bug? > > > > > that is one of my question that it been troubling me. why > is replace > have a special treatment in dealing with escape characters > while other > function such as print does the exact thing which escapes > the character. > if i follow it correctly replace should only see one > backslash to be > inserted in the string instead of two. > > i have found this post in python mailing list: > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-May/614590.html. > > But I want the exact opposite from that post. from HTML > entries to > Unicode. so there must be some way to reverse that > function. correct? > _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
