python format and display non ASCII characters

Question

I'm trying to print the £ sign, but I cannot seem to do this using the format() methodology.I'm trying the following:

curr_prefix = u"\xA3"
print "{}".format(curr_prefix)

But I get the following error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xa3' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

This is a duplicate of a squillion other questions on printing Unicode in Python. Read them. — smci, Jan 05 '15 at 19:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '15 at 19:17

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Try print u"{}".format(curr_prefix)

answered Jan 05 '15 at 19:17

VHarisop

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