Umlauts revisited: Now they prevent program from running

[Alex Martelli]

"Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger at datec.at> wrote in message
news:94rt05$tbe$1 at newsreaderg1.core.theplanet.net...
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> (ActiveState 2.0 on NT4) by simply typing "fld.Value".
>
> It displays u'St\374ck'.
>
> Conversion into a Python string by applying print or str() yields:
>
> "Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)"
>
> Any idea how to overcome this?

try, for example, using fld.Value.encode('iso-8859-1') -- that
should return the Python string you desire, i.e. 'St\374ck'.


Alex