Reputation: 3587
a = ['M\xc3\xa3e']
b = 'M\xc3\xa3e'
print a
print b
results:
['M\xc3\xa3e']
Mãe
How can I print a
like: ['Mãe']
Upvotes: 3
Views: 921
Reputation: 2742
For personal use, this module https://github.com/moskytw/uniout will come very handy.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 22571
In python2 you can subclass list
class and use __unicode__
method:
#Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 16:38:10)
>>> class mylist(list):
... def __unicode__(self):
... return '[%s]' % ', '.join(e.decode('utf-8') if isinstance(e, basestring)
... else str(e) for e in self)
>>> a = mylist(['M\xc3\xa3e', 11])
>>> print a
['M\xc3\xa3e', 11]
>>> print unicode(a)
[Mãe, 11]
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 17240
This is a feature in python2
But in python3 you will get what you want :).
$ python3
Python 3.3.3 (default, Nov 26 2013, 13:33:18)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> a = ['M\xc3\xa3e']
>>> print(a)
['Mãe']
>>>
or in python2 you can:
print '[' + ','.join("'" + str(x) + "'" for x in a) + ']'
Upvotes: 1