To support ASCII characters in the console with Python, you can encode the strings that contain ASCII characters using the ASCII encoding. By default, Python uses the UTF-8 encoding, which supports a wider range of characters, including non-ASCII characters.
To encode a string using ASCII, you can use the encode()
method with the "ascii" argument. For example:
main.py67 chars4 lines
This will output:
main.py17 chars2 lines
The b
at the beginning of the output indicates that the string is encoded as bytes.
Note that if you try to encode a string that contains non-ASCII characters using the ASCII encoding, a UnicodeEncodeError
will be raised. In this case, you can either replace the non-ASCII characters with ASCII equivalents or switch to using a different encoding that supports the non-ASCII characters.
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