formatted string like---> u'720 S'

[Bell, Kevin]

I'm building a dictionary from values a database and upon print the
dictionary I see key value pairs like this:

u'Briarcliff' : [u'2500 E'],
u'Shumway' : [ u'2600 E']

do I need to slice off the "u", or anything? I know it has something to
do with unicode but I don't know how to treat it.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:00:16 -0700, Bell, Kevin wrote:

I'm building a dictionary from values a database and upon print the
dictionary I see key value pairs like this:

u'Briarcliff' : [u'2500 E'],
u'Shumway' : [ u'2600 E']

do I need to slice off the "u", or anything? I know it has something to
do with unicode but I don't know how to treat it.

No. The u is part of the display of the string, just like the quote marks.

Ordinary strings are printed with ' ' delimiters.
Unicode strings are printed with u' ' delimiters.

--
Steven.