I’m working with a .txt file. I want a string of the text from the file with no non-ASCII characters. However, I want to leave spaces and periods. At present, I’m stripping those too. Here’s the code:
I want to I check whether a string is in ASCII or not.
My code just scrapes a web page, then converts it to Unicode.
I’m having a few issues trying to encode a string to UTF-8. I’ve tried numerous things, including using string.encode('utf-8') and unicode(string), but I get the error:
Python sorts by byte value by default, which means é comes after z and other equally funny things. What is the best way to sort alphabetically in Python?
I have this error:
I have a function that removes punctuation from a list of strings:
From the Python 2.6 shell:
Is there a way to globally suppress the unicode string indicator in python? I’m working exclusively with unicode in an application, and do a lot of interactive stuff. Having the u’prefix’ show up in all of my debug output is unnecessary and obnoxious. Can it be turned off?