Re: getting rid of —

[Tep]

On 3 Jul., 06:40, Simon Forman <sajmik... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 4:31 am, Tep <petshm... at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > On 2 Jul., 10:25, Tep <petshm... at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > > On 2 Jul., 01:56, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
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> > > > someone wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
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> > > > > how can I replace '—' sign from string? Or do split at that character?
> > > > > Getting unicode error if I try to do it:
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> > > > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x97 in position
> > > > > 1: ordinal not in range(128)
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> > > > > Thanks, Pet
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> > > > > script is # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
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> > > > It sounds like you're mixing bytestrings with Unicode strings. I can't
> > > > be any more helpful because you haven't shown the code.
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> > > Oh, I'm sorry. Here it is
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> > > def cleanInput(input)
> > >     return input.replace('—', '')
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> > I also need:
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> > #input is html source code, I have problem with only this character
> > #input = 'foo — bar'
> > #return should be foo
> > def splitInput(input)
> >     parts = input.split(' — ')
> >     return parts[0]
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> > Thanks!
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> Okay people want to help you but you must make it easy for us.
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> Post again with a small piece of code that is runnable as-is and that
> causes the traceback you're talking about, AND post the complete
> traceback too, as-is.
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> I just tried a bit of your code above in my interpreter here and it
> worked fine:
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> |>>> data = 'foo — bar'
> |>>> data.split('—')
> |['foo ', ' bar']
> |>>> data = u'foo — bar'
> |>>> data.split(u'—')
> |[u'foo ', u' bar']
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> Figure out the smallest piece of "html source code" that causes the
> problem and include that with your next post.

The problem was, I've converted "html source code" to unicode object
and didn't encoded to utf-8 back, before using split...
Thanks for help and sorry for not so smart question
Pet

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> HTH,
> ~Simon
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> You might also read this:http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html