Formatting string with accented characters for printing

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Le dimanche 18 janvier 2015 19:29:12 UTC+1, Peter Otten a écrit :
> 
> The best approach is to convert your data to unicode as soon as you read it 
> and perform all string operations with unicode. This also avoids breaking 
> characters:
> 
> >>> print "Méresse"[:2]
> M�                                                                                                                                                    
> >>> print u"Méresse"[:2]
> Mé
> 
> There are still problems (e. g. with narrow builds), and the best way to 
> avoid a few string-related inconviences is to switch to Python 3.

Well,

>>> print 'Méresse'
Méresse
>>> print u'Méresse'
Méresse
>>> print 'Méresse'[:2]
Mé
>>> print u'Méresse'[:2]
Mé
>>> sys.version
'2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]'
>>>

jmf