printing list containing unicode string

[Xah Lee]

On Sep 10, 8:12 am, Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
 
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
ttt=[[u"→",u"↑"], [u"αβγ"],...]
print ttt

how can i print it without getting the u'\u1234' notation?
i.e. i want it print just like this: [[u"→"], ...]
 

Carsten Haese wrote:
 
It's not quite clear why you want to do this, but this is how you
could
do it:

print repr(ttt).decode("unicode_escape").encode("utf-8")
 

Super! Thanks a lot.

About why i want to... i think it's just simpler and easier on the
eye?

here's a example output from my program:
[[u' ', 1022], [u'↑', 472], [u' ', 128], [u'→w', 300], [u'→s', 12],
[u'→|', 184],...]

wouldn't it be preferable if Python print like this by default...

  Xah
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