[reportlab-users] Python files and ascii
cito at online.de
cito at online.de
Mon Feb 21 07:28:11 EST 2022
On 21.02.2022 12:27, Claude Paroz wrote:
> I like the proposal of Peter, alowing unicode for test files. Because
> Unicode is rather useful in tests. Typically, it's just more friendly to
> write:
>
> para = Paragraph("Viele Grüße")
>
> than
>
> para = Paragraph(b'Viele Gr\xc3\xbc\xc3\x9fe'.decode('utf-8'))
Btw, that has been possible since Python 2.3 with a "# coding = " magic
comment. What's new is that Python 3 assumes UTF-8 by default instead of
ASCII and that you can use Unicode even in variable names.
-- Christoph
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