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Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'.

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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:33 AM, goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com> wrote:
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>  I'm using using Idle on winXP, activestate 2.7. Is there a way to
> suppress this and just show 174  in the shell ?
> A script reading data and assigns 174 to n via some regex. Links on
> this appreciated - I've tried to understand unicode before, will keep
> trying...thanks.

There's two things there. Firstly, your regex is returning a list, not
a string; and secondly, you are seeing repr(n) instead of just its
content. Try:
>>> print(n[0])

This should print just the value.

(Pro tip: rantingrick is a troll. You can safely ignore him.)

Chris Angelico

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Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com> - 2011-07-23 17:33 -0700
  Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 17:48 -0700
  Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-24 10:52 +1000
    Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2011-07-25 10:00 +0200
      Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 17:33 -0700
  Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-24 03:06 +0200
    Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com> - 2011-07-26 18:18 -0700
      Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-26 23:04 -0400
        Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. goldtech <goldtech@worldpost.com> - 2011-07-27 16:37 -0700
      Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-27 14:20 +1000

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