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From: Joe P. Cool on 2 Apr 2010 05:02
Hi,

I'm working with Python 2.6.4 on Ubuntu 9.10 and noticed a difference
between IDLE and command line python. If I enter an é (accented e,
LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE) as a unicode string in command line
python I get this:

>>> u'é'
u'\xe9'

In IDLE 2.6.4 I get this:

>>> u'é'
u'\xc3\xa9'

IDLE is set to UTF-8 and console environment has LANG = en_US.UTF-8.
This is a bit annyoing because ord(u'é') works on the command line but
raises an exception in IDLE:

>>> ord(u'é')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
ord(u'é')
TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 2 found

Is this a bug? IDLE 3.1.1 works.

Cheers,
Joe
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