Printing lists with special characters

Question

I have a list with special characters like l1 = ['øk', 'løk', 'pølse', 'pål', 'æl'] How can I print or return this list in a function so the special characters are included. I know you can write print u'Ølske'

but what do you do when you have lists?`

When I run this:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
l1 = [u"ål", u"øk", u"møk"]

print l1

I get:

[u'\xe5l', u'\xf8k', u'm\xf8k']

What have you tried? When I tried that, "ascii ordinal not in range" exception appeared. in the list try putting u'' for each element, as in the print command. remember u'' denotes a unicode string, it's not a special print command — Luis Masuelli, Feb 18 '14 at 20:01
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20947173/printing-unicode-char-inside-a-list — ndpu, Feb 18 '14 at 20:05
With python 3, you will not have to play with encoding traps... — , Feb 18 '14 at 20:09
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9317025/python-return-list-from-function — ymd_, Feb 18 '14 at 20:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '14 at 23:05

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Here's the small hack that will do the job:

>>> l1 = [u"ål", u"øk", u"møk"]
>>> print '[' + ', '.join("'" + x + "'" for x in l1) + ']'
>>> ['ål', 'øk', 'møk']

Python 3.0 should print the special characters as is from the list without any hassles.

answered Feb 18 '14 at 23:05

Shan Valleru

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