Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> writes:
> Me> [what am I missing?]
>
> Michael> The encoding:
>
> >>> print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}".encode("latin1")
> °
>
> Hmmm... I don't believe I've ever encountered an object in Python before
> that you couldn't simply print. Are Unicode objects unique in this respect?
> Seems like a bug (or at least a feature) to me.
Well, what would you have
>>> print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}"
(or equivalently
str(u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}")
since we're eventually going to have to stuff an 8-bit string down
stdout) do?
I don't think
>>> print u"\N{DEGREE SIGN}"
u'\xb0'
is really an option.
This is old news. It must have been discussed here before 1.6,
I'd have thought.
Cheers,
M.
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