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| Started by | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
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| First post | 2013-11-05 08:41 -0600 |
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Re: how to find out utf or not Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-05 08:41 -0600
Re: how to find out utf or not Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-11-05 15:30 +0000
Re: how to find out utf or not Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-06 00:03 -0600
| From | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
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| Date | 2013-11-05 08:41 -0600 |
| Subject | Re: how to find out utf or not |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2055.1383662485.18130.python-list@python.org> |
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh <mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote: > Suppose i have a variable such as : myVar = 'x' > May be it initialized with myVar = u'x' or myVar = 'x' > So i need determine content of myVar that it's utf-8 or not, how can i > do it? Use the type() function and compare to unicode or str respectively. E.g. If type(myvar)==unicode: -- DaveA
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| From | Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> |
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| Date | 2013-11-05 15:30 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <bdsh8bFcov1U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #58504 |
On 2013-11-05, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh ><mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote: >> Suppose i have a variable such as : myVar = 'x' > >> May be it initialized with myVar = u'x' or myVar = 'x' > >> So i need determine content of myVar that it's utf-8 or not, how > can i >> do it? > > Use the type() function and compare to unicode or str > respectively. E.g. If type(myvar)==unicode: That will tell you wether it's a unicode string or a byte string, but not the encoding of the source bytes. Unless there's some context I'm not privy to. u'x' is (hopefully) decoded already, but the encoding of 'x' is unknown. -- Neil Cerutti
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| From | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
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| Date | 2013-11-06 00:03 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2075.1383717788.18130.python-list@python.org> |
| In reply to | #58505 |
On 5 Nov 2013 15:30:19 GMT, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2013-11-05, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh > >> May be it initialized with myVar = u'x' or myVar = 'x' My solution assumed he wanted to distinguish between those two cases. > >> So i need determine content of myVar that it's utf-8 or not, how I failed to notice thetypo in that line or the misunderstanding it implies. -- DaveA
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