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unicode in doc strings

asked 2011-07-30 13:53:58 +0100

Eugene gravatar image

updated 2011-07-30 13:56:18 +0100

Hi!

Is it possible to use utf-8 characters in doc-strings? I tried to write description to __init__ method in russian language:

class Bazz:
    def __init__(self):
        """
        ? ? ? ? ? 
        """
        pass

but then I write "Bazz(" and press tab:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "_sage_input_66.py", line 10, in exec compile(u'print _support_.docstring("Bazz", globals(), system="sage")' + '\n', '', 'single') File "", line 1, in File "/opt/sage/devel/sagenb/sagenb/misc/support.py", line 263, in docstring return html_markup(s) File "/opt/sage/devel/sagenb/sagenb/misc/support.py", line 288, in html_markup return '

' + preamble + '

' + s + '

' UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

P.S. After I posted this question, site relapsed russian characters in code with '?' :-\

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If the thing in the PS happens again, you should feel free to go to askbot.org and see about this; I am pretty sure the developer of askbot would be interested in making sure this works - perhaps via some preamble, I don't know.

kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2011-08-01 10:05:44 +0100 )edit
kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2015-04-16 16:48:45 +0100 )edit

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answered 2011-07-31 21:31:15 +0100

Have you tried putting

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

as the very first line of your file? You might also try replacing the """ at the start of the docstring with u""" or with ur""".

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Yep, I tried to insert '# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' into the first cell of notebook, then I moved class definition to file with '# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' in the beginning and loaded it with 'load' command. The same exception appears in both cases.

Eugene gravatar imageEugene ( 2011-08-01 02:52:36 +0100 )edit

What about the other suggestion? That would seem more likely to me to work.

kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2011-08-01 10:04:43 +0100 )edit

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