[Python-3000] Displaying strings containing unicode escapes (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 16:53:02 CEST 2008

Oleg Broytmann wrote:

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21:26PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

You get:

>>> "тест" 'тест' >>> open("тест") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/home/ncoghlan/devel/py3k/Lib/io.py", line 212, in new return open(*args, **kwargs) File "/home/ncoghlan/devel/py3k/Lib/io.py", line 151, in open closefd) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'тест' Very well, then. Thank you! The code should be put in a cookbook or the wiki, if not in the library.

Unfortunately, it turns out that the trick also breaks display of strings containing any other escape codes. For example:

'\n' ' ' '\t' ' '

The unicode_escape codec is interpreting all of the escape sequences recognised in Python strings, not just the \u sequences we're interested in.

I can't see an easy way around this at the moment, but I'm still reasonably convinced that the issue of Unicode escapes for non-ASCII users is best attacked as a display problem rather than an internal representation problem.

Cheers, Nick.

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