how to print unicode structures?

[Timothy Babytch]

Imagine you have some list that looks like
('unicode', 'not-acii', 'russian') and contains characters not from
acsii. or list of dicts, or dict of dicts.

how can I print it? not on by one, with "for" - but with just a simple
print? My debugging would be MUCH simpler.

Now when I try print or pprint that variable I get a page full of
'\xe4\xeb\xa2\xa0\xe6\xe3\xaa\xe6\xe3\xaa' and so on.

I use Python 2.4, Fedora Linux, UTF-8 locale

 

[Serge Orlov]

Imagine you have some list that looks like
('unicode', 'not-acii', 'russian') and contains characters not from
acsii. or list of dicts, or dict of dicts.

how can I print it? not on by one, with "for" - but with just a simple
print? My debugging would be MUCH simpler.

I think the best (in terms of time) way to do it is to copy pprint.py
to upprint.py and hack it.

Now when I try print or pprint that variable I get a page full of
'\xe4\xeb\xa2\xa0\xe6\xe3\xaa\xe6\xe3\xaa' and so on.

It looks like bytes, you should get rid of them as soon as possible. If you're not looking for speed hacks, as a rule of thumb you
should convert bytes to unicode characters as soon as possible. When I try to print Russian characters I get unicode escapes (\u)
not byte escapes (\x) like you:

print unicode([u'ÁÂ×'])

[u'\u0430\u0431\u0432']

Serge.

 

[Serge Orlov]

print unicode([u'ÁÂ×'])

[u'\u0430\u0431\u0432']

Oops, Outlook Express has screwed the encoding, one more evidence that printing unicode is hard
I hope this time, the message will be with real Russian characters instead of Latin ones.

Serge.