tkinter + unicode + bug or feature??
Bob van der Poel
bvdpoel at kootenay.com
Fri Jan 24 15:01:16 EST 2003
Jp Calderone wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 11:28:19AM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
>
>>[snip]
>>
>>So, can I force tkinter to return non-unicode strings? Or can I write a
>>function to convert all my Entry widget strings to be non-unicode. And,
>>I am dreaming that this is a new problem? I recently upgraded my Linux
>>box to mandrade 9.0 and it has installed python 2.2.1.
>>
>
>
> Python MegaWidgets provides an EntryField class that lets you specify
> arbitrary validation functions for the input. You could use it, or write
> your own mini-subclass of Entry that -just- prevents unicode input, and then
> use that class instead of Entry. I'm not aware of a solution that will let
> you continue using Tkinter.Entry and not get unicode input (at least, one
> that isn't a dirty hack).
>
> Jp
>
Okay. I'll have to look at the MegaWidget stuff later. I'm just thinking
that doing something like string=entrywidget.get().encode('iso8859-1')
should do the trick. Not sure, though, what encoding to use. Is there a
pythonic way to determine the best to use?
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