ucs2 and ucs4 python

zayatzz alan.kesselmann at gmail.com
Wed May 16 04:22:20 EDT 2012


On May 15, 7:42 pm, Miki Tebeka <miki.teb... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can someone point me towards a resource or two which will tell me how
> > to do this - im not very good with whole linux/servers stuff. Im using
> > ubuntu linux - if that makes any difference.
>
> Did not test, but this is the direction I would take:
> * Download Python sources
> * Open Terminal
> * Run the following commands in the Terminal window
>   - sudo apt-get build-dep python
>   - tar -xjf Python-2.7.3.tar.bz2
>   - cd Python-2.7.3
>   - ./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-unicode=ucs2 && make
>   - sudo make install
> * Now you should have /opt/bin/python with ucs2
>
> HTH
> --
> Miki Tebeka <miki.teb... at gmail.com>http://pythonwise.blogspot.com

Thanks for reply :)

And it seems to work... When i type in
/opt/bin/python
import sys
sys.maxunicode

then i get the desired answer - 65535

But it seems the work only begins now, because i cant use other python
libraries now with this version of python and i probably have to
install them all again somehow...

But thanks for your help :)

Alan



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