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Ninja Dude
Ninja Dude

Reputation: 1392

Python list unable to hold encoded unicode symbol

After doing

symb = []
    for unicodeOfSymbol in myList:
        print unicodeOfSymbol.encode('UTF-8') # This prints out the symbol perfectly
        symb.append(unicodeOfSymbol.encode('UTF-8'))

I tried to print symb but i got this which i think is byte string?

<type 'list'>: ['\xf0\x9f\x98\x82', '\xe2\x9c\xa8', '\xe2\x99\xa5', '\xf0\x9f\x92\x96', '\xe2\x99\xa1']

How do i get the symbols to be printed out in the list as it is? I am using python2.7

Upvotes: 0

Views: 29

Answers (2)

Dan D.
Dan D.

Reputation: 74645

Like this:

>>> print '[' + ', '.join(['\xf0\x9f\x98\x82', '\xe2\x9c\xa8', '\xe2\x99\xa5', '\xf0\x9f\x92\x96', '\xe2\x99\xa1']) + ']'
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Upvotes: 2

chepner
chepner

Reputation: 531055

Just print each element of the list; printing the list as a single entity gives you the representation of the string, not the string itself. Compare

print(symb)

to 

for x in symb:
    print(x)

Upvotes: 2

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