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Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts

From Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts
Date 2013-08-28 10:23 +0000
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On 28/8/2013 04:01, Kurt Mueller wrote:


> Because I cannot switch to Python 3 for now my life is not so easy:-)
>
> For some text manipulation tasks I need a template to split lines
> from stdin into a list of strings the way shlex.split() does it.
> The encoding of the input can vary.
> For further processing in Python I need the list of strings to be in unicode.
>

According to:
   http://docs.python.org/2/library/shlex.html

"""Prior to Python 2.7.3, this module did not support Unicode
input"""

I take that to mean that if you upgrade to Python 2.7.3, 2.7.4, or
2.7.5, you'll have Unicode support.

Presumably that would mean you could decode the string before calling
shlex.split().

-- 
DaveA

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right adjusted strings containing umlauts Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 16:23 +0200
  Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-08 14:40 +0000
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-08-08 16:19 +0100
  Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts jfharden@gmail.com - 2013-08-08 07:43 -0700
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 17:24 +0200
      Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-10 01:29 +0000
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-08 17:44 +0200
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-08 15:50 +0000
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 18:16 +0200
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 18:27 +0200
      Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-08-09 01:30 -0700
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-08 18:34 +0200
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 17:37 +0100
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-08 17:47 +0000
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-08 16:51 -0400
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2013-08-23 17:47 +0200
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com> - 2013-08-28 10:01 +0200
    Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-28 10:23 +0000
      Re: right adjusted strings containing umlauts kurt.alfred.mueller@gmail.com - 2013-08-28 04:17 -0700

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