I've read Unicode HOWTO several times, and solve similar problems many times, still not understanding how. Anyone can help me on how to properly print this loaded json ?
#!/usr/bin/env python2
# coding: utf8
import json
s = u'["poêle", "mangé"]'
print s
l = json.loads(s)
print l
I've tried every combination of enconding/encode/decode/unicode I could though of... and yet the second print is ugly :
$ python test.py
["poêle", "mangé"]
[u'po\xeale', u'mang\xe9']
Thanks for your help
To pretty print your list try the following taken from this so question
print repr(l).decode('unicode-escape')
Also, when you print a list, it prints the
reprof the elements.
print l[0], l[1] is different from print l, so you can always iterate over the elements and print them. print l[0], l[1] will also print the characters properly.
This should help you understand the differences
class MyClass(object):
def __repr__(self):
return "<repr: MyClass>"
def __str__(self):
return "<str: MyClass>"
l = [ MyClass(), MyClass(), MyClass() ]
print l
print l[0], l[1], l[2]
output
[<repr: MyClass>, <repr: MyClass>, <repr: MyClass>]
<str: MyClass> <str: MyClass> <str: MyClass>
