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Aedaeum
Aedaeum

Reputation: 305

Trying to print unicode characters to the console using string.format()

below is the snippet in question:

print '{:─^10}'.format('') # Print '─' character 10 times

I'm using this to create nice console borders and such. The problem is, running this in my py file with # coding UTF-8 gives me: ValueError: Invalid conversion specification

If I run this same script in the python shell, it spits out the escaped characters: '\xc4\xc4\xc4\x...'

I don't know how (in my script) to get this to print out the '─' character. It can print the '─' character just fine if I use print '─' because of the UTF-8 encoding, but for some reason it won't allow it in the string.format() function.

Any suggestions? I'm sure this is probably easy to fix, but i'm VERY new to python programming.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1374

Answers (1)

ekhumoro
ekhumoro

Reputation: 120678

Assuming you're using Python2, you need to use unicode (u'') strings:

print u'{:─^10}'.format(u'')

Upvotes: 2

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