CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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nameless
nameless

Reputation: 89

How to check Unicode char in python

def order_check_uni(body):  
    ccnt=0  
    for x in body:    
        if x.isUpper():  
            ccnt+=1  
        if ccnt>2:  
            print 'success'

I try to find char non ASCII or special char or unicode char or cyrillic char like абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя ®©™ in string body with that script, i try to replace isUpper() with isascii() and len(x) == len(x.encode), with unichr() and the other function but still find error, can somebody help me?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 14370

Answers (3)

Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom

Reputation: 308091

for x in body:
    if ord(x) > 127:
        # character is *not* ASCII

This works if you have a Unicode string. If you just want to detect if the string contains a non-ASCII character it also works on a UTF-8 encoded byte string.

Update for Python 3: the above still works on Unicode strings, but ord no longer works for byte strings. But that's OK, because indexing into a byte string already returns an integer - no conversion necessary! The code becomes even simpler, especially if you combine it with the any function:

if any(x > 127 for x in body):
    # string is *not* ASCII

Upvotes: 8

6160
6160

Reputation: 1002

you can chech if a string is unicode by using the method isinstance()

s = u'aあä'
if isinstance(s, unicode):
  do_something()

Upvotes: -1

Romil Shah
Romil Shah

Reputation: 105

Not Sure, whats your exact requirement is

>>> u'aあä'.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
'a'

I Found this at Python: Convert Unicode to ASCII without errors

Upvotes: 1

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