Jorge Louis de Castro wrote: > Thanks again, > Ok, it seems unpacking list items returns different types of string > representations. Playing around on the interpreter this is what I found: > > lst = ['r', 'ent\xc3\xa3o?'] > >>>> print lst[1] > > então? > >>>> s = lst[1] >>>> print lst > > ['r', 'ent\xc3\xa3o?'] > >>>> print s > > então? > >>>> > > So, the list has one thing inside but when I unpack it it comes out as > something else.
It's the same string, just two different ways of looking at it. When you print lst, it prints repr(lst[1]) which shows non-ascii characters as \x escapes. When you print lst[1] it prints it as a string. Your console evidently doesn't handle utf-8; it prints two separate characters instead. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
