Re: how to get my character?

[Peter Otten]

contro opinion wrote:

> how can i get "你好" from '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3' ?

>>> print '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3'.decode("gbk")
你好

General rule: use the decode() method to convert from bytestring to unicode
and encode() to convert from unicode to bytestring.

bytestring.encode(x) will implicitly try
bytestring.decode("ascii").encode(x) which is likely to fail.

[Lutz Horn]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:52:48 +0800, contro opinion wrote:
> how can i get "你好" from 'xc4xe3xbaxc3' ?

Please share any results you get from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9018303/how-to-get-my-character with
python-list.

Lutz

[Dave Angel]

On 01/26/2012 07:52 AM, contro opinion wrote:
> my system:xp+python27 the codec, xp gbk;python 27 ascii
>
> a = '你好'
> a
> '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3'
> print a
> 你好

> '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3'.decode('gbk')

> u'\u4f60\u597d'
> '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3'.encode('gbk')
> Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in UnicodeDecodeError:
> 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc4 in position 0: ordinal not in
> range(128)

>
> how can i get "你好" from '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3' ?
>

I don't have 'gbk' as my encoding. But on your system, if you simply
print it, you should get the proper characters.

Try:
a = '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3'
print repr(a)
print a

And see if it now make sense. You're looking at the encoded form of the
two characters. You could decode it to the two-character unicode string,
as you showed above. But it makes no sense to try to encode something
that's already encoded.

--

DaveA