SV: Unicode literals to latin-1

[David.Reksten at sweco.no]

On 30. januar 2008 14:31, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>On 30 ene, 07:54, <David.Reks... at sweco.no> wrote:
>> On 30. januar 2008 10:48, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>>
>> >On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:57:55 +0100, David.Reksten wrote:
>>
>> >> How can I convert a string read from a database containing unicode
>> >> literals, such as "Fr\u00f8ya" to the latin-1 equivalent, "Frøya"?
>
>> >In [388]: 'Fr\u00f8ya'.decode('unicode-escape')
>> >Out[388]: u'Fr\xf8ya'
>>
>> 'unicode-escape' did the trick! Thank you!
>
>A unicode-escaped string looks very strange in a database... I'd
>revise the way things are stored and retrieved.

I agree. I'm currently using the trick above to fix it.

.david