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Formatting string with accented characters for printing

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  Formatting string with accented characters for printing Jerry Rocteur <jerry.rocteur@gmail.com> - 2015-01-18 17:04 +0100
    Re: Formatting string with accented characters for printing John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-01-27 11:16 -0800

#83992 — Formatting string with accented characters for printing

Hi,

When I try and format output when there are accented characters the
output does not look right.

e.g.

27 Angie Dickons                       67,638
28 Anne MÉRESSE                 64,825

So the strings containing accented characters print one less than
those that don't.

I've tried both:

    print '{0:2} {1:25} {2} '.format( cnt, nam[num].encode('utf-8'),
steps[ind1])
    print "%3d %-25s %-7s" % ( cnt, nam[num].encode('utf-8'), steps[ind1])

I've searched but I can't see a solution..

I guess it is the way I'm printing nam[num].encode('utf-8') perhaps I
have to convert it first ?

Can someone please help.

Thanks

-- 
Jerry Rocteur

Jerry@rocteur.com

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Jerry,

I can tell from your code that you are using Python 2.  If you are a new Python programmer, and you do not HAVE to use Python 2, use Python 3 instead.

In Python 3, text objects are something called "Unicode" rather than just sequences of bytes.  Unicode makes it much easier to handle characters which are not part of the English alphabet.

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