Can somebody explain why this is happening? I'm only getting this while executing this in python2.7.
See code below.
data = "ëeêfdsf"
print data[:3]
Expected output: ëeê
Current output: ëe
Put
u in front
u"ëeêfdsf".
Stop using Python 2,it's dead in the end of this year.
Unicode was one biggest changes moving to Python 3.
In Python 3 is all text Unicode bye default.
Python 3.7:
>>> data = "ëeêfdsf"
>>> data
'ëeêfdsf'
>>> data[:3]
'ëeê'
Python 2.7:
>>> data = "ëeêfdsf"
>>> data
'\xc3\xabe\xc3\xaafdsf'
>>> data[:3]
'\xc3\xabe'
>>> print(data[:3])
ëe
>>> print(data[:3].decode('utf-8'))
ëe
>>> data = u"ëeêfdsf"
>>> print(data[:3])
ëeê
Thank you for your well explained examples.