Unicode in Python.ipynb

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   "cell_type": "markdown",
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   "source": [
    "# Lets read in a UTF-8 file"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 2,
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   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "'Bokm\\xc3\\xa5l'"
      ]
     },
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     "metadata": {},
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   "source": [
    "# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-                                                                                                                                                                                              \n",
    "                                                                                                                                                                                                                     \n",
    "# wget http://fil.nrk.no/yr/viktigestader/noreg.txt                                                                                                                                                                  \n",
    "                                                                                                                                                                                                                     \n",
    "f = open(\"noreg.txt\", \"r\")                                                                                                                                                                                           \n",
    "                                                                                                                                                                                                                     \n",
    "s_utf8 = f.readline().split(\"\\t\")[12]     \n",
    "s_utf8"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
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   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "7\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "print len(s_utf8)"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 4,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
   },
   "outputs": [
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     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "<type 'unicode'>\n"
     ]
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     "data": {
      "text/plain": [
       "u'Bokm\\xe5l'"
      ]
     },
     "execution_count": 4,
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "execute_result"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "s_unicode = s_utf8.decode(\"utf-8\")\n",
    "print type(s_unicode)\n",
    "s_unicode"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 5,
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    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "6\n"
     ]
    }
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   "source": [
    "print len(s_unicode)"
   ]
  },
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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 7,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "<type 'str'>\n",
      "<type 'unicode'>\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "print type(\"Bokmål\")                                                                                                                                                                                                 \n",
    "print type(u\"Bokmål\")                                                                                                                                                                                                "
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 8,
   "metadata": {
    "collapsed": false
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   "outputs": [
    {
     "name": "stdout",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "True\n",
      "False\n",
      "True\n"
     ]
    },
    {
     "name": "stderr",
     "output_type": "stream",
     "text": [
      "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/__main__.py:2: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal\n",
      "  from IPython.kernel.zmq import kernelapp as app\n"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "print s_unicode == u\"Bokmål\"                                                                                                                                                                                         \n",
    "print s_unicode == \"Bokmål\"                                                                                                                                                                                          \n",
    "print s_unicode.encode(\"utf-8\") == \"Bokmål\" "
   ]
  }
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