print / str / repr

[Nikolai Kirsebom]

How do I (in a program) achieve the same result as using the print
statement (interactive).

In the interpreter:

s = u "some '\xcf' text"
print s Traceback (most ....):
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) s.encode('latin-1') "some '\xcf' text" print s.encode('latin-1') some '¤' text `s.encode('latin-1')`

'"some \'\\xcf\' text"'

Thanks for any help.
Nikolai

[vincent wehren]

Nikolai Kirsebom wrote:

How do I (in a program) achieve the same result as using the print
statement (interactive).

In the interpreter:

s = u "some '\xcf' text"
print s
Traceback (most ....):
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
s.encode('latin-1')
"some '\xcf' text"
print s.encode('latin-1')
some '¤' text
`s.encode('latin-1')`

'"some \'\\xcf\' text"'

You mean you want to print/write/store the exact line '"some \'\\xcf\'
text"' ?

s = u"some '\xcf' text"
s = `s.encode('latin-1')`
print repr(s.encode('latin-1')) # prints '"some \'\\xcf\' text"'

Is this what you're looking for?

-- Vincent Wehren