从没有Unicode的键中打印字典值[u'STRING]

Question

I am adding to a dictionary by doing .append within python

theDict = defaultdict(list)
theDict[theKey].append(theValue)

I'll try to print it out via

print theDict[valueKeyToLookUp]

But it always ends up looking like this:

[u'STRING_I_WANT']

I've tried doing print with str() at the front, but it still leaves the u' there.

I tried this: Python string prints as [u'String'] by doing

valueKeyToLookUp.encode('ascii')

But it still comes out the same. Other solutions look like they are looking up values via the position it is in the list by number, but I need to do it by value.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Your dictionary doesn't contain strings, it contains lists of strings. When you print a list, that's the way Python formats it.

If you know that the list only contains a single string, just print that:

print theDict[valueKeyToLookUp][0]

If the dictionary isn't supposed to contain lists, you need to fix that.