Printing non-ascii characters in python/jinja

Question

The following code works correctly:

from jinja2 import Template

mylist = ['some text \xc3']

template = Template('{{ list }}')

print template.render(list=mylist)

When I run it, it outputs:

['some text \xc3']

Yet, when I try to print the actual list element, it fails:

template = Template('{{ list[0] }}')

print template.render(list=mylist)

The error is:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128)

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I would like to find a way to print the individual list element in the same way that the whole list is printed, where the non-ascii character is represented with the \x notation.

Answer 1

I figured it out. The key is to do str.encode('string-escape')

So, I did this:

template = Template('{{ list[0].encode("string-escape") }}')

And that worked.