[Gnumed-devel] Re: Dictionary Question

[Hilmar Berger]

Hi Richard,

u'' means that this is a unicode string - you can work with these or 
change their coding to ordinary strings, e.g.

u'my text'.encode('latin-1') gives you 'my text" as ordinary string.

Hilmar


Richard Terry schrieb:

> Karsten et al,
>
> Can you help me with something simple.
>
> I want to read the contents of a text box
>  eg  line1 = self.text1..GetValue() ?is this the way as it seems to work
>         line2 = self.text2..GetValue() etc
> Then I want to be able to put these into a dictionary
>
> mydict = {}
> mydict[0] = line1, line2, line3, line4, line5
>
> if I print out mydict (as you can see I put drug stuff in it) I get this:
>
> {0: (u'', u'omeprazole', u'omeprazole magnesium', u'Losec Tablets', u'20mg', 
> u'1 mane')}
>
> This looks like a dictionary structure but has a 'u' character before each 
> string?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> richard

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