Foreign Characters in Python source

Post #192,013 by ChrisR 1/27/05 3:59:05 PM Reply	Foreign Characters in Python source In some text I'm filtering with Python script, I got a line that goes something like: \n postDesc = postDesc.replace("\ufffd\ufffd", "\ufffd")\n Works fine for what I want, but Python gives me a warning along the lines of: sys:1: DeprecationWarning: Non-ASCII character '\\xc3' in file D:\\Python\\ltu-index.py on line 3112, but no encoding declared; see [link\|http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html\|http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html] for details Ok, so it's just a warning, but kind of annoying. I can't make out anything useful from the PEP (though I'm not very patient in these matters). So is there a way to get these characters with the 8th bit set to be accepted by the Python compiler sans the warning?
Post #192,035 by folkert 1/27/05 7:40:37 PM Reply	Declare Encoding of UTF-8 -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]
Post #192,040 by ChrisR 1/27/05 9:36:50 PM Reply	Got it, thanks. #!/usr/local/bin/python # -- coding: UTF-8 --
Post #192,060 by FuManChu 1/28/05 1:17:34 AM 1/28/05 1:21:54 AM Reply	Use unicode strings instead The declaration Greg pointed out is only necessary if your identifiers need unicode. If all your unicode is safely tucked away inside of strings, use u"Pe\\xf1asco" or u"Pe\\u00f1asco". The u-prefix makes them unicode objects, as opposed to string objects. Almost all builtin and library funcs will handle them properly, including .replace(). [link\|http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html\|http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html] [edit: added link to docs] Edited by FuManChu Jan. 28, 2005, 01:21:54 AM EST Expand All History

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