how to print unicode structures?

[Timothy Babytch]

Imagine you have some list that looks like
('unicode', 'not-acii', 'russian') and contains characters not from
acsii. or list of dicts, or dict of dicts.

how can I print it? not on by one, with "for" - but with just a simple
print? My debugging would be MUCH simpler.

Now when I try print or pprint that variable I get a page full of
'\xe4\xeb\xa2\x a0\xe6\xe3\xaa\ xe6\xe3\xaa' and so on.

I use Python 2.4, Fedora Linux, UTF-8 locale

[Serge Orlov]

Re: how to print unicode structures?

Timothy Babytch wrote:[color=blue]
> Imagine you have some list that looks like
> ('unicode', 'not-acii', 'russian') and contains characters not from
> acsii. or list of dicts, or dict of dicts.
>
> how can I print it? not on by one, with "for" - but with just a simple
> print? My debugging would be MUCH simpler.[/color]

I think the best (in terms of time) way to do it is to copy pprint.py
to upprint.py and hack it.
[color=blue]
>
> Now when I try print or pprint that variable I get a page full of
> '\xe4\xeb\xa2\x a0\xe6\xe3\xaa\ xe6\xe3\xaa' and so on.[/color]

It looks like bytes, you should get rid of them as soon as possible. If you're not looking for speed hacks, as a rule of thumb you
should convert bytes to unicode characters as soon as possible. When I try to print Russian characters I get unicode escapes (\u)
not byte escapes (\x) like you:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> print unicode([u'ÁÂ×'])[/color][/color][/color]
[u'\u0430\u0431\ u0432']

Serge.

[Serge Orlov]

Re: how to print unicode structures?

Serge Orlov wrote:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>> print unicode([u'ÁÂ×'])[/color][/color]
> [u'\u0430\u0431\ u0432']
>[/color]
Oops, Outlook Express has screwed the encoding, one more evidence that printing unicode is hard :)
I hope this time, the message will be with real Russian characters instead of Latin ones.

Serge.