On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> > wrote: >> >> "David Hutto" <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote >> >>> Below is the output before converting: >>> >>> [(u'.hjvkjgfkj/bdgfkjbg', u''), (u'bbbbbbbbbbbbuuzzzzzzzzz', u'Pie >>> Chart'), (u'jgkgyckghc', u''), (u'kfhhv ', u''), (u'khfhf', u''), >>> (u'test', u''), (u'test10', u''), (u'test2', u'Dashed/Dotted'), >>> (u'test3', u'Pie Chart'), (u'test346w43', u''), (u'test4', u'Scatter >>> Plot'), (u'test5', u''), (u'test6', u''), (u'test7', u''), >>> (u'test7uyuy', u''), (u'test8', u''), (u'test9', u''), (u'testgraph', >>> u''), (u'u;s;juf;sfkh', u''), (u'zzrerhshhjrs', u'')] >> >> And there is the answer to your question. >> The string that you thought started with ; actually starts with a 'u' >> But you strip the 'u;' off that entry so it appears to be badly ordered. >> >> So the next question is why do you strip the 'u' off? >> >> I suspect the answer to that also lies here. >> I suspect you think you need to strip all the 'u's from the front of >> these results but in fact those 'u's lie outside the string, they >> are a part of Python's representation of a unicode string, >> not a part of the string. >> >> So if you remove the call to strip() your code will return >> the result you expected. >> >> >> -- >> Alan Gauld >> Author of the Learn to Program web site >> http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ >> >> > Not to belabor the point too much, I plucked one of your strings out and > printed it. Looking at your data, all those u' prefixes you thought you > were removing were (in a sense) never really there! The only u you removed > was the one near the end that was followed with a semicolon. >
I see it now. I knew that the u outside ' ' is the coding for the string, but I thought I had to strip it before using it since that was how it showed up. The bug of course would be that graphs that start with u would go to the second letter, but the u would still be used in alphabetization, because the alphabetizing is prior to stripping. Thanks, for the help with that. > > print u'zzrerhshhjrs' > zzrerhshhjrs > > -- > Joel Goldstick > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
