conversion to and from unicode strings

[abhishek]

hello group,
i want to represent and store a string u'\x00\x07\xa7' as
'\x00\x07\xa7'. any ideas on how to achieve this.

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=]

abhishek wrote:

hello group,
i want to represent and store a string u'\x00\x07\xa7' as
'\x00\x07\xa7'. any ideas on how to achieve this.

You want to store it in the form of the repr() of the string? It is
possible to use repr() to get a bytestring to store and to use eval() to
create a unicode string of that bytestring again. But that's just bad.

It's much better to use a encoding that can represent all Unicode
characters like UTF-8.

>>s = u'\x00\x07\xa7'
bytestr = s.encode("utf-8")
bytestr

'\x00\x07\xc2\xa7'

>>out_str = unicode(bytestr, "utf-8")
out_str == s

True

-- Gerhard

[Duncan Booth]

abhishek <gu***************@gmail.comwrote:

hello group,
i want to represent and store a string u'\x00\x07\xa7' as
'\x00\x07\xa7'. any ideas on how to achieve this.

You can use latin-1 encoding.

>>u = ''.join(unichr(c) for c in range(256))
[ord(c) for c in u.encode('latin1')] == range(256)

True
--
Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com