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  tuple __repr__ non-ascii characters Yaşar Arabacı <yasar11732@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 16:59 +0200

#58181 — tuple __repr__ non-ascii characters

Hi,

while this:

a = "yaşar"
print a

prints "yaşar"

this:

a = ("yaşar",)
print a

prints ('ya\xfear',)

At first I tried decoding repr(a) with different encodings, but later
I realised there is actually 4 charaters \, x, f and e in return value
of repr.

Therefore, I wrote this:

def byte_replacement(bstring):
    return chr(int(bstring[2:],16))

def prettyprint(obj):
    text = repr(obj)
    while True:
        try:
            start = text.index("\\x")
            text = text[:start] +
byte_replacement(text[start:start+4]) + text[start+4:]
        except ValueError:
            break
    print text

Is there a better way to handle this problem?

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