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Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:34:51 -0700
Subject: 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 posi=
tion 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 "=FE".  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]) inste=
ad.