Python print unicode strings in arrays as characters, not code points

Question

If I've got a dictionary of the form:

a = {u"foo": u"ბარ"}

and I write

>>> print a[u"foo"]

I get

ბარ

as expected. But if I write

>>> print a

I get

{u'foo': u'\u10d1\u10d0\u10e0'}, but I would prefer the characters themselves to be printed.

All the data will ultimately get dumped into a database anyway, so it's not critical to solve this problem, but for debugging it would be nice if I could get readable output when I print the entire dictionary. Is there any way to do this?

For those who are curious, the script is Georgian, and yes, it says "bar".

Thomas K · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-13 11:55:01Z

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This works in my terminal:

print repr(a).decode("unicode-escape")

answered Apr 13, 2011 at 11:55

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ademar111190 Over a year ago

i'm getting wrongs strings, for example "indeterminaÃ§Ã£o" instead "indeterminação".

Thomas K Over a year ago

@ademar111190 : Looks like it's trying to use UTF-8, but your terminal is displaying it in a single-byte encoding, like cp1252. Try print repr(a).decode('unicode-escape').encode('latin-1').

Jahan · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-17 16:28:11Z

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Thomas answer is absolutely correct. I just want to add this line for everyone who wants a more readable output:

print json.dumps(a, indent=4, default=str).decode('unicode-escape')

answered Oct 17, 2019 at 16:28

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