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<p id=toc>&nbsp;
<h2 id=boring-stuff>Some Boring Stuff You Need To Understand Before You Can Dive In</h2>
<p class=f>Did you know that the people of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Province">Bougainville</a> have the smallest alphabet in the world? Their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_alphabet">Rotokas alphabet</a> is composed of only 12 letters: A, E, G, I, K, O, P, R, S, T, U, and V. On the other end of the spectrum, languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have thousands of characters. English, of course, has 26 letters &mdash; 52 if you count uppercase and lowercase separately &mdash; plus a handful of <i class=baa>!@#$%&</i> punctuation marks.
<p class=f>Did you know that the people of <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Province>Bougainville</a> have the smallest alphabet in the world? Their <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotokas_alphabet>Rotokas alphabet</a> is composed of only 12 letters: A, E, G, I, K, O, P, R, S, T, U, and V. On the other end of the spectrum, languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have thousands of characters. English, of course, has 26 letters &mdash; 52 if you count uppercase and lowercase separately &mdash; plus a handful of <i class=baa>!@#$%&</i> punctuation marks.
<p>When people talk about &#8220;text,&#8221; they&#8217;re thinking of &#8220;characters and symbols on the computer screen.&#8221; But computers don&#8217;t deal in characters and symbols; they deal in bits and bytes. Every piece of text you&#8217;ve ever seen on a computer screen is actually stored in a particular <i>character encoding</i>. Very roughly speaking, the character encoding provides a mapping between the stuff you see on your screen and the stuff your computer actually stores in memory and on disk. There are many different character encodings, some optimized for particular languages like Russian or Chinese or English, and others that can be used for multiple languages.
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ def approximate_size(size, a_kilobyte_is_1024_bytes=True):
<samp class=p>>>> </samp><kbd>"{0:.1f} {1}".format(698.25, 'GB')</kbd>
<samp>'698.3 GB'</samp></pre>
<p>For all the gory details on format specifiers, consult the <a href="http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language">Format Specification Mini-Language</a> in the official Python documentation.
<p>For all the gory details on format specifiers, consult the <a href=http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language>Format Specification Mini-Language</a> in the official Python documentation.
<h2 id=common-string-methods>Other Common String Methods</h2>
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<p>Python 3 assumes that your source code &mdash; <i>i.e.</i> each <code>.py</code> file &mdash; is encoded in UTF-8.
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<p><span>&#x261E;</span>In Python 2, the default encoding for <code>.py</code> files was <abbr>ASCII</abbr>. In Python 3, <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3120/">the default encoding is UTF-8</a>.
<p><span>&#x261E;</span>In Python 2, the default encoding for <code>.py</code> files was <abbr>ASCII</abbr>. In Python 3, <a href=http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3120/>the default encoding is UTF-8</a>.
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<p>If you would like to use a different encoding within your Python code, you can put an encoding declaration on the first line of each file. This declaration defines a <code>.py</code> file to be windows-1252:
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<pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: windows-1252 -*-</code></pre>
<p>For more information, consult <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/"><abbr>PEP</abbr> 263: Defining Python Source Code Encodings</a>.
<p>For more information, consult <a href=http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/><abbr>PEP</abbr> 263: Defining Python Source Code Encodings</a>.
<h2 id=furtherreading>Further Reading</h2>
<p>On Unicode in Python:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://docs.python.org/3.0/howto/unicode.html">Python Unicode HOWTO</a>
<li><a href="http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#text-vs-data-instead-of-unicode-vs-8-bit">What&#8217;s New In Python 3: Text vs. Data Instead Of Unicode vs. 8-bit</a>
<li><a href=http://docs.python.org/3.0/howto/unicode.html>Python Unicode HOWTO</a>
<li><a href=http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#text-vs-data-instead-of-unicode-vs-8-bit>What&#8217;s New In Python 3: Text vs. Data Instead Of Unicode vs. 8-bit</a>
</ul>
<p>On Unicode in general:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)</a>
<li><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode">On the Goodness of Unicode</a>
<li><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/13/Strings">On Character Strings</a>
<li><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF">Characters vs. Bytes</a>
<li><a href=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html>The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)</a>
<li><a href=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode>On the Goodness of Unicode</a>
<li><a href=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/13/Strings>On Character Strings</a>
<li><a href=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/26/UTF>Characters vs. Bytes</a>
</ul>
<p>On character encoding in other formats:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://feedparser.org/docs/character-encoding.html">Character encoding in XML</a>
<li><a href="http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding">Character encoding in HTML</a>
<li><a href=http://feedparser.org/docs/character-encoding.html>Character encoding in XML</a>
<li><a href=http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-character-encoding>Character encoding in HTML</a>
</ul>
<p>On strings and string formatting:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html"><code>string</code> &mdash; Common string operations</a>
<li><a href="http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html#formatstrings">Format String Syntax</a>
<li><a href="http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language">Format Specification Mini-Language</a>
<li><a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/"><abbr>PEP</abbr> 3101: Advanced String Formatting</a>
<li><a href=http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html><code>string</code> &mdash; Common string operations</a>
<li><a href=http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html#formatstrings>Format String Syntax</a>
<li><a href=http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/string.html#format-specification-mini-language>Format Specification Mini-Language</a>
<li><a href=http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3101/><abbr>PEP</abbr> 3101: Advanced String Formatting</a>
</ul>
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