Showing native 8-bit strings in Python interpreter

[braver]

I'm storing 8-bit characters from the 128-256 range in Python
strings. They are Windows CP1251 Russian characters. When looking at
those strings in the Python interpreter, they come up as codes inside
the string. How can I teach Python to show those 8-bit characters in
the native encoding of the terminal -- in the current locale -- where
the interpreter was started?

Cheers,
Alexy

[Diez B. Roggisch]

braver wrote:

I'm storing 8-bit characters from the 128-256 range in Python
strings. They are Windows CP1251 Russian characters. When looking at
those strings in the Python interpreter, they come up as codes inside
the string. How can I teach Python to show those 8-bit characters in
the native encoding of the terminal -- in the current locale -- where
the interpreter was started?

The python-interpreter will print them out using hex because it calls
repr(string) - to prevent any encoding-related troubles.

But printing them will meet your expectations. See below:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35)

>>s = 'äöüßÄÜ'
s

'\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc\xc3\x9f\xc3\x84\xc3\x9c'

>>print s

äöüßÄÜ

>>>

Diez