[issue20686] Confusing statement about unicode strings in tutorial introduction

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Python 2.7 is no longer supported. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka resolution: -> out of date stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue20686] Confusing statement about unicode strings in tutorial introduction

R. David Murray added the comment: re: file. You forgot the 'u' in front of the string: f.write(u'This is a «test»\n') Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xab' in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

[issue20686] Confusing statement about unicode strings in tutorial introduction

Daniel U. Thibault added the comment: mystring=äöü myustring=uäöü mystring '\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc' myustring u'\xe4\xf6\xfc' str(mystring) '\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc' str(myustring) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec

[issue20686] Confusing statement about unicode strings in tutorial introduction

Georg Brandl added the comment: First, entering a string at the command prompt like this is not considered printing; it's invoking the repr(). Then, when you say flexible, you say it as if it's a good thing. In this context flexible means as much as easy to produce mojibake and is not