I have a mysql database with characters like � � » in it. I'm
trying to write a python script to remove these, but I'm having a
really hard time.
These strings are coming out as type 'str' not 'unicode' so I tried to
just
record[4].replace('�', '')
but this does nothing. However the following code works
#!/usr/bin/python
s = 'aaaaa � aaa'
print type(s)
print s
print s.find('�')
This returns
<type 'str'>
aaaaa � aaa
6
The other odd thing is that the � character shows up as two spaces if
I print it to the terminal from mysql, but it shows up as � when I
print from the simple script above.
What am I doing wrong?
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
