How to overcome automatic cyrillic-to-/hex convert

[Terry Reedy]

<degoor_python at dir.bg> wrote in message news:web-10021930 at dir.bg...
> But when I enter some Bulgarian (actually cyrillic) text as a string,
> it
> seems that Python automatically converts it to '\x00..\x00 ' and once
> converted that way I can't get it back into its original look. The only
> way to get it right is using print :
>
>>>> a = 'ÌÀÌÀ' # 'Mam' in Bulgarian
>>>> print a
> 'ÌÀÌÀ'
>
> but
>
>>>> a
> '\xcc\xe0\xec\xe0'

There is a difference between internal data and external presentation. 
Print a calls str(a) to get a 'nice' presentation.  Echoing 'a' calls 
repr(a) to get an invertible presentation (eval(repr(somestring)) == 
somestring).  Internally, 'a' is the 4 bytes indicated by the repr 
presentation, not the 16 chars displayed in that presentation.  There is no 
conversion until that presentation.

I cannot comment about wxGrid and how to get it to display the nice version 
you want.

Terry J. Reedy