python - Printing Unicode Char inside a List

Question

a = ['Mxc3xa3e']
b = 'Mxc3xa3e'
print a
print b

results:

['Mxc3xa3e']
M?e

How can I print a like: ['M?e']

Answer 1

In python2 you can subclass list class and use __unicode__ method:

#Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 16:38:10) 

>>> class mylist(list):
...  def __unicode__(self):
...   return '[%s]' % ', '.join(e.decode('utf-8') if isinstance(e, basestring)
...                             else str(e) for e in self)
>>> a = mylist(['Mxc3xa3e', 11])
>>> print a
['Mxc3xa3e', 11]
>>> print unicode(a)
[M?e, 11]