On 09/17/2017 07:25 AM, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 08:03 pm, Leam Hall wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out how to convert a string to unicode in
Python 2.
A Python 2 string is a string of bytes, so you need to know what encoding they
are in. Let's assume you got them from a source using UTF-8. Then you would do:
mystring.decode('utf-8')
and it will return a Unicode string of "code points" (think: more or less
characters).
Still trying to keep this Py2 and Py3 compatible.
The Py2 error is:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf6'
in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)
even when the string is manually converted:
name = unicode(self.name)
Same sort of issue with:
name = self.name.decode('utf-8')
Py3 doesn't like either version.
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