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using unicode character in Python file

Dave_J_Zhang

Hi,

I am trying to develop a python script tool. In this python file I need to use Unicode character like the following:

input_X.replace("°"," "), which intended to replace degree symbol with space, for the purpose of degree minute seconds input. but when I save the python file and reopen again, the file could not recognize the degree symbol and become "?".

Does anyone have a way to solve this problem?

Dave

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DanPatterson_Retired

posted a new link there just today... I will give you a direct link to it to save you some time

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RandyBurton

I've been watching the clock: python 2.7 countdown... Thanks.

DanPatterson_Retired

Randy... prepare for python 3.x, there is no more need to u stuff, u'know'

RandyBurton

I find typing a 'u' to specify a Unicode string helpful:

input_X.replace(u'°',' ')

DanPatterson_Retired

hmmmm no need for reading from a file, at least in Canada

if loaded and compiled into a script called Canada.py you will see that it is the utf-8 that is important if using python 2.7. In python 3.x Unicode support is enforced and the concept of a string is a bit fuzzy since everything is generally Unicode or byte.

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import sys,os

script = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]).split(".")[0]

a = "°"

print("Ehhh?... a {} of confusion? but not in {}".format(a, script))

PaulHacker2

Well this works. If you make the degree symbol in a text file, say "degreetest.txt" and read it in it displays it fine.

import sys, os

# Open the input file *

try:

intemplate = open("C:/data/degreetest.txt", "r")

except IOError:

print "screwup1"

# Read line.

try:

x = intemplate.readline()

except IOError:

print "screwup2"

print x

intemplate.close()

sys.exit("Finto")

also.....

Try this:

import unicodedata

b = unicodedata.lookup('DEGREE SIGN')

print b

and that will get your degree sign. So you can generate it in the script for use.

Paul

DanPatterson_Retired

You are using python 2.7 so put this at the top of your script, you have a unicode issue

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
>>> a = "°"
>>> a
'°'
>>> b = "temperature "+a
>>> b
'temperature °'
>>> c = b.replace(a,"too cold")
>>>
>>> c
'temperature too cold'

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