"7stud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 8:30 am, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> In case you are feeling that the ','.join(l) looks a bit
>> jarring, be aware that there are alternative ways to write it.
>> You can call the method on the class rather than the instance:
>>
>> jl = str.join(',', l)
>> jl = unicode.join(u'\u00d7', 'l')
>>
>>... the catch is you need to know
>> the type of the separator in advance.
>
> When I try the latter example, I get an error:
>
> lst = ["hello", "world"]
> print unicode.join(u"\u00d7", lst)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "test1.py", line 2, in ?
> print unicode.join(u"\u00d7", lst)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xd7'
> in position 5: ordinal not in range(128)
>
Your terminal is likely the problem. Get rid of the print:
q=unicode.join(u'\u00d7',['hello','world'])
and you will probably get rid of the exception.
(so I guess the issue is the display, not the logic)
max
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