Printing characters outside of the ASCII range

[danielk]

On Friday, November 9, 2012 4:34:19 PM UTC-5, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> danielk wrote:
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> > The database I'm using stores information as a 3-dimensional array. The delimiters between elements are
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> > chr(252), chr(253) and chr(254). So a record can look like this (example only uses one of the delimiters for
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> > simplicity):
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> > name + chr(254) + address + chr(254) + city + chr(254) + st + chr(254) + zip
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> > The other delimiters can be embedded within each field. For example, if there were multiple addresses for 'name'
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> > then the 'address' field would look like this:
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> > addr1 + chr(253) + addr2 + chr(253) + addr3 + etc ...
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> > I use Python to connect to the database using subprocess.Popen to run a server process. Python requests
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> > 'actions' like 'read' and 'write' to the server process, whereby the server process performs the actions. Some
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> > actions require that the server send back information in the form of records that contain those delimiters.
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> > I have __str__ and __repr__ methods in the classes but Python is choking on those characters. Surely, I could
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> > convert those characters on the server before sending them to Python and that is what I'm probably going to do,
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> > so guess I've answered my own question. On Python 2, it just printed the 'extended' ASCII representation.
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> > I guess the question I have is: How do you tell Python to use a specific encoding for 'print' statements when I
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> > know there will be characters outside of the ASCII range of 0-127?
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> You just need to change the string to one that is not 
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> trying to use the ASCII codec when printing. 
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> print(chr(253).decode('latin1')) # change latin1 to your 
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>                                  # chosen encoding.
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> ý
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> ~Ramit
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D:\home\python>pytest.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\home\python\pytest.py", line 1, in <module>
    print(chr(253).decode('latin1'))
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Do I need to import something?