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samrobbins
samrobbins

Reputation: 501

Printing subscript in python

In Python 3.3, is there any way to make a part of text in a string subscript when printed?

e.g. H₂ (H and then a subscript 2)

Upvotes: 31

Views: 205390

Answers (5)

R. Cox
R. Cox

Reputation: 879

If you want to use it on the axes of a plot you can do:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1])
plt.ylabel(r'$H_{2}$')
plt.show()

which gives

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Details on the Tex markup language and how to use it in matplotlib can be found here.

Upvotes: 20

schesis
schesis

Reputation: 59168

If all you care about are digits, you can use the str.maketrans() and str.translate() methods:

example_string = "A0B1C2D3E4F5G6H7I8J9"

SUB = str.maketrans("0123456789", "₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉")
SUP = str.maketrans("0123456789", "⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹")

print(example_string.translate(SUP))
print(example_string.translate(SUB))

Which will output:

A⁰B¹C²D³E⁴F⁵G⁶H⁷I⁸J⁹
A₀B₁C₂D₃E₄F₅G₆H₇I₈J₉

Note that this won't work in Python 2 - see Python 2 maketrans() function doesn't work with Unicode for an explanation of why that's the case, and how to work around it.

Upvotes: 52

Shirsho
Shirsho

Reputation: 342

Using code like this works too:

print('\N{GREEK SMALL LETTER PI}r\N{SUPERSCRIPT TWO}')
print('\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA}r\N{SUBSCRIPT TWO}')

The output being:

πr²
Θ₂

Note that this works on Python versions 3.3 and higher only. Unicode formatting.

Upvotes: 20

Hemant Bawane
Hemant Bawane

Reputation: 21

By using this code you can use alphabets on the superscript and subscript In This code format() is Function and in Format function ('\unicode')

By using this table (Unicode subscripts and superscripts on Wikipedia) you can give suitable unicode to the suitable one

you can use superscript and sub script

"10{}".format('\u00B2')  # superscript 2

Upvotes: 2

Bakuriu
Bakuriu

Reputation: 101999

The output performed on the console is simple text. If the terminal supports unicode (most do nowadays) you can use unicode's subscripts. (e.g H₂) Namely the subscripts are in the ranges:

  • 0x208N for numbers, +, -, =, (, ) (N goes from 0 to F)
  • 0x209N for letters

For example:

In [6]: print(u'H\u2082O\u2082')
H₂O₂

For more complex output you must use a markup language (e.g. HTML) or a typesetting language (e.g. LaTeX).

Upvotes: 35

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