Re: Unicode Problem

**Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch** · Oct 30 '08, 08:25 AM

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:28:39 +0300, Seid Mohammed wrote:

I am new to python.
I want to print Amharic character using the Python IDLE. here goes
somple code
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>>>abebe = 'áŠ á‰ á‰ á‰ áˆ¶ á‰ áˆ‹'
>>>abebe

'\xe1\x8a\xa0\x e1\x89\xa0\xe1\ x89\xa0 \xe1\x89\xa0\xe 1\x88\xb6
\xe1\x89\xa0\xe 1\x88\x8b'

>>>print abebe

áŠ á‰ á‰ á‰ áˆ¶ á‰ áˆ‹

>>>abeba = ['áŠ á‰ á‰ ','á‰ áˆ¶','á‰ áˆ‹'] abeba

['\xe1\x8a\xa0\x e1\x89\xa0\xe1\ x89\xa0', '\xe1\x89\xa0\x e1\x88\xb6',
'\xe1\x89\xa0\x e1\x88\x8b']

>>>print abeba

['\xe1\x8a\xa0\x e1\x89\xa0\xe1\ x89\xa0', '\xe1\x89\xa0\x e1\x88\xb6',
'\xe1\x89\xa0\x e1\x88\x8b']

>>>len(abebe)

23
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so my question is
1)why >>abebe prints '\xe1\x8a\xa0\x e1\x89\xa0\xe1\ x89\xa0
\xe1\x89\xa0\xe 1\x88\xb6 \xe1\x89\xa0\xe 1\x88\x8b' instead of áŠ á‰ á‰ á‰ áˆ¶ á‰ áˆ‹
2) why >>print abeba don't print the expected áŠ á‰ á‰ á‰ áˆ¶ á‰ áˆ‹ string thanks
a lot.

Because lists represent their content in the `repr()` form. So you, the
programmer, can see what's really in there.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch