[Python-Dev] Unicode literals in Python 2.7 (original) (raw)

Adam Bartoš drekin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 18:19:49 CEST 2015

Yes, that works for eval. But I want it for code entered during an interactive session.

u'α' u'\xce\xb1'

The tokenizer gets b"u'\xce\xb1'" by calling PyOS_Readline and it knows it's utf-8 encoded. But the result of evaluation is u'\xce\xb1'. Because of how eval works, I believe that it would work correctly if the PyCF_SOURCE_IS_UTF8 was set, but it is not. That is why I'm asking if there is a way to set it. Also, my naive thought is that it should be always set in the case of interactive session.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Le 29 avr. 2015 10:36, "Adam Bartoš" <drekin at gmail.com> a écrit : > Why I'm talking about PyCFSOURCEISUTF8? eval(u"u'\u03b1'") -> u'\u03b1' but eval(u"u'\u03b1'".encode('utf-8')) -> u'\xce\xb1'.

There is a simple option to get this flag: call eval() with unicode, not with encoded bytes. Victor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150429/46b23158/attachment-0001.html>

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