涉及特殊字符的Python编码问题

Question

I am running Win7 x64 and I have Python 2.7.5 x64 installed. I am using Wing IDE 101 4.1.

For some reason, encoding is messed up.

special_str = "sauté"
print string
# sauté
string
# 'saut\xc3\xa9'

I don't understand why when I try to print it, it comes out weird. When I write it to a notepad text file, it comes out as right ("sauté"). Problem with this is that when I use BeautifulSoup on the string, it comes out containing that weird string "saut├⌐" and then when I output it back into a csv file, I end up with a html chunk containing that weird bit. Help!

Answer 1

You need to declare the encoding of the source file so Python can properly decode your string literals.

You can do this with a special comment at the top of the file (first or second line).

# coding:<coding>

where <coding> is the encoding used when saving the file, for example utf-8 .