"Piet van Oostrum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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"Mark Tolonen" <[email protected]> (MT) wrote:
MT> <[email protected]> wrote in message
MT>
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Sorry being unclear again, hmm I am becoming an expert in it.
I pasted that code as continuation of my old code at start
i.e
class A(object):
def __unicode__(self):
return u"©au"
def __repr__(self):
return unicode(self).encode("utf-8")
__str__ = __repr__
doesn't work means throws unicode error
my question boils down to
what is diff between, why one doesn't throws error and another does
print unicode(a)
vs
print unicode([a])
MT> That is still an incomplete example. Your results depend on your
source
MT> code's encoding and your system's stdout encoding. Assuming a=A(),
MT> unicode(a) returns u'©au', but then is converted to stdout's encoding
for
MT> display.
You are confusing the issue. It does not depend on the source code's
encoding (supposing that the encoding declaration in the source is
correct). repr returns unicode(self).encode("utf-8"), so it is utf-8
encoded even when the source code had a different encoding. The u"©au"
string is not dependent on the source encoding.
Sorry about that. I'd forgotten that the OP'd forced __repr__ to utf-8.
You bring up a good point, though, that the encoding the file is actually
saved in and the encoding declaration in the source have to match. Many
people get that wrong as well.
-Mark
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