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Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range

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On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:17 AM, danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm converting an application to Python 3. The app works fine on Python 2.
>
> Simply put, this simple one-liner:
>
> print(chr(254))
>
> errors out with:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "D:\home\python\tst.py", line 1, in <module>
>     print(chr(254))
>   File "C:\Python33\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 19, in encode
>     return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_map)[0]
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\xfe' in position 0: character maps to <undefined>
>
> I'm using this character as a delimiter in my application.
>
> What do I have to do to convert this string so that it does not error out?

In Python 2, chr(254) means the byte 254.

In Python 3, chr(254) means the Unicode character with code point 254,
which is "þ".  This character does not exist in CP 437, so it fails to
encode it for output.

If what you really want is the byte, then use b'\xfe' or bytes([254]) instead.

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Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 09:17 -0800
  Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 10:34 -0700
  Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 11:39 -0600
  Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-09 12:47 -0500
    Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 13:17 -0800
      RE: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-09 21:34 +0000
        Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 13:46 -0800
          Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 15:10 -0700
            Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-11 05:42 -0800
              Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2012-11-11 18:09 +0100
            Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-11 05:42 -0800
        Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 13:46 -0800
      Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 15:39 -0600
    Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range danielk <danielkleinad@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 13:17 -0800
  Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2012-11-10 02:09 -0800
  Re: Printing characters outside of the ASCII range Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2012-11-11 15:40 +0100

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