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user106306
user106306

Reputation: 315

Unicode to string in Python 2

If I define the variable

x = 'Ááa Éée'

then the output of

print x

is

Ááa Éée

But I have an unicode object

x = u'Ááa Éée'

and I need the same output as before. To do this, I tried converting it to a str with

str(u'Ááa Éée')

but it didn't work.

How can I do this? (I'm only interested exit.)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 264

Answers (3)

fainle
fainle

Reputation: 11

x = u'Ááa Éée' is unicode string

so, you You can only use unicode() instead str()

use unicode string

You need to specify the encoding

string = x.encode('utf-8') #utf-16 or ...

print string.decode('utf-8')

Upvotes: 0

Messa
Messa

Reputation: 25181

str(u'Ááa Éée') is not working, because this conversion unicode -> str uses encoding ASCII by default and characters ÁáÉé are not present in ASCII.

You need this: u'Ááa Éée'.encode("UTF-8") - if your terminal uses UTF-8.

Things about unicode can be complicated, it's better to read something about it:

Upvotes: 2

Pedro Werneck
Pedro Werneck

Reputation: 41878

Actually, print u"Ááa Éée" should give you the exact same output as print "Ááa Éée". Maybe you are confusing with printing the representation of each one on the terminal. Anyway, if what you're asking is how to convert the unicode to str, use x.encode('utf-8').

Upvotes: 4

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