Question

The following code

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
x = (u'abc/αβγ',)
print x
print x[0]
print unicode(x).encode('utf-8')
print x[0].encode('utf-8')

…produces:

(u'abc/\u03b1\u03b2\u03b3',)
abc/αβγ
(u'abc/\u03b1\u03b2\u03b3',)
abc/αβγ

Is there any way to get Python to print

('abc/αβγ',)

that does not require me to build the string representation of the tuple myself? (By this I mean stringing together the "(", "'", encoded value, "'", ",", and ")"?

BTW, I’m using Python 2.7.1.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could decode the str representation of your tuple with 'raw_unicode_escape'.

In [25]: print str(x).decode('raw_unicode_escape')
(u'abc/αβγ',)