"George Trojan" <george.tro...@noaa.gov> wrote in message
news:hbidd7$i9...@news.nems.noaa.gov...
A trivial one, this is the first time I have to deal with Unicode. I am
trying to parse a string s='''48° 13' 16.80" N'''. I know the charset is
"iso-8859-1". To get the degrees I did
>>> encoding='iso-8859-1'
>>> q=s.decode(encoding)
>>> q.split()
[u'48\xc2\xb0', u"13'", u'16.80"', u'N']
>>> r=q.split()[0]
>>> int(r[:r.find(unichr(ord('\xc2')))])
48
Is there a better way of getting the degrees?
It seems your string is UTF-8. \xc2\xb0 is UTF-8 for DEGREE SIGN. If you
type non-ASCII characters in source code, make sure to declare the encoding
the file is *actually* saved in:
# coding: utf-8
s = '''48° 13' 16.80" N'''
q = s.decode('utf-8')
# next line equivalent to previous two
q = u'''48° 13' 16.80" N'''
# couple ways to find the degrees
print int(q[:q.find(u'°')])
import re
print re.search(ur'(\d+)°',q).group(1)
-Mark
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