string length problem?

[Qian Xu]

Hi All,

why the code
print len(u"»test«")
returns 8 instead of 6?

Best regards
Qian

 

[Peter Otten]

why the code
print len(u"»test«")
returns 8 instead of 6?

You may have declared an encoding that differs from the one your editor
actually uses, e. g.

# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
print len(u"»test«")

whereas your editor writes UTF-8.

Peter

 

[Qian Xu]

Hi All,

why the code
print len(u"»test«")
returns 8 instead of 6?

Best regards
Qian

I have solved the problem myself.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
print len(u"»test«")

--- or ---
s = "»test«"
print len(s.decode("utf-8"))

--Qian

 

[John Machin]

Hi All,

why the code
  print len(u"»test«")
returns 8 instead of 6?

I suggest that you do
print repr(u"»test«")
and inspect the result.
HTH,
John