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\x a0\xe6\xe3\xaa\ xe6\xe3\xaa' and so on.

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

[Serge Orlov]

Timothy Babytch wrote:

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\x a0\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]

Serge Orlov wrote:

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.