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Reputation: 10162

print unicode characters in python interpreter

I am playing around working with unicode in python. I am not able to print (display) the unicode characters such asé I tried the following:

>>> sys.setdefaultencoding('UTF8')
>>> chr(0xFF)
'\xff'
>>> u = u'abcdé'
>>> len(u)
5
>>> u[4]  
u'\xe9'
>>> str(u[4])
'\xc3\xa9'
>>>

I was expecting u[4] to print é but it prints u'\xe9'. how can I make this work? I am using python 2.7.2 version

Upvotes: 1

Views: 203

Answers (1)

Jayanth Koushik
Jayanth Koushik

Reputation: 9904

When you just type u[4], it shows the repr. To see the unicode character, use print.

print u[4]

Upvotes: 6

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