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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:52:47 +1000
Subject: 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:
>
> =A0I'm using using Idle on winXP, activestate 2.7. Is there a way to
> suppress this and just show 174 =A0in 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