[IronPython] How to convert a unicode variable to string?

[Curt Hagenlocher]

You can check for the unicode type by saying "if type(a) == type(u'')".
 This will work under both CPython and IronPython.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Vizcayno <vizcaynot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Curt:
> Thanks for your answer and guidelines. As I do not know what value
> will my variable receive from cells of an excel file (int, double,
> strings with accute spanish characters, etc.) I will use the try ...
> except.
> My very best regards.
> Vizcayno.
>
>
>
>
> On 23 sep, 11:15, "Curt Hagenlocher" <c... at hagenlocher.org> wrote:
> > IronPython wants to treat this string as Unicode because it's got a
> > character with the high bit set.  You can actually get an equivalent
> result
> > from CPython when you tell it to use Unicode:
> >
> > >>> a="Pitón"
> > >>> str(a)
> > 'Pit\xa2n'
> > >>> a=u"Pitón"
> > >>> str(a)
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xf3' in
> position
> > 3: ordinal not in range(128)
> >
> >
> >
> > (Though I can't help but notice that we may be raising the wrong type of
> > error.)
> >
> > You'll probably need to special-case unicode strings and keep them as
> > unicode instead of trying to convert them with "str" to a single-byte
> > string.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Vizcayno <vizcay... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello:
> > > Is there a workaround to solve the next problem?
> >
> > > .ipy
> > > IronPython 2.0 Beta (2.0.0.5000) on .NET 2.0.50727.3053
> > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > >>> a="Pitón"
> > > >>> print str(a)
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >  File "mscorlib", line unknown, in GetString
> > >  File "mscorlib", line unknown, in GetChars
> > >  File "mscorlib", line unknown, in Fallback
> > >  File "mscorlib", line unknown, in Throw
> > > UnicodeDecodeError: ('unknown', u'\xf3', 3, 4, '')
> >
> > > I python 2.5 I get:
> > > >>> a = "Pitón"
> > > >>> print str(a)
> > > Pitón
> >
> > > May be you will ask: why to do that? well,  what I want is to convert
> > > any value a variable receives (float, unicode, int, string, etc) to a
> > > string variable.
> > > Many thanks for your time and help.
> > > Vizcayno.
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