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Tomasz Brzezina
Tomasz Brzezina

Reputation: 1534

what command print unicode escaped in python

How to print strings escaped?

Example:

text_str = "żółć"
text_unicode = u"żółć"

print function(text_str)
'\xc5\xbc\xc3\xb3\xc5\x82\xc4\x87'
print function(text_unicode)
u'\u017c\xf3\u0142\u0107'

so, what function should I use?

updated I need more than escape, because I need this in log, and throwing escaped sometimes leads me to unescaped results

Upvotes: 1

Views: 127

Answers (1)

Padraic Cunningham
Padraic Cunningham

Reputation: 180512

You want the repr output:

In [1]: text_str = "żółć"

In [2]: text_unicode = u"żółć"

In [3]: print repr(text_str)
'\xc5\xbc\xc3\xb3\xc5\x82\xc4\x87'

In [4]: print repr(text_unicode)
u'\u017c\xf3\u0142\u0107'

There are also 'string_escape' and 'unicode_escape':

text_str = "żółć"
text_unicode = u"żółć"

print text_str.encode('string_escape')

print text_unicode.encode('unicode_escape')

But encoding 'unicode_escape' will give you a str not unicode

Upvotes: 2

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