What's the best/neatest way to get Unicode data from a database into a grid cell?

[cl at isbd.net]

Dietmar Schwertberger <maillist at schwertberger.de> wrote:
> On 07.02.2016 12:19, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > However my database has quite a lot of Unicode data as there are
> > French (and other) names with accents etc.  What's the right way to
> > handle this reasonably neatly?  At the moment it traps an error at
> > line 37:-
> >      self.SetCellValue(row_num, i, str(cells[i]))
> The unicode versions of wxPython should have no problems with handling 
> unicode strings.
> The problem that you see here is that str(...) tries to convert your 
> unicode data into a non-unicode string, which of course fails.
> Do something like:
> 
> value = cells[i]
> if not isinstance(value, basestring):
>     value = str(value)
> self.SetCellValue(row_num, i, value)
> 
Thanks, worked perfectly!  I had been trying to produce something
similar in tkinter but grids are a bit clumsy in tkinter.  This wx
implementation will do me nicely.


> Once you switch to Python 3 and Phoenix you have to modify this 
> slightly, e.g. by adding this to the top of your code:
> 
> try:
>     basestring
> except:
>     basestring = (bytes,str)
> 
Everything else is 3 compatible so moving should be fairly painless
if/when phoenix becomes available.


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Chris Green
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