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kovidgoyal · 07-23-2014, 02:17 PM

I give up, your output is completely self conflicting.

In the next to last post you have

print repr(u_genre) --> u"u'Fiction:General'"

If that is the case there is no way that eval(u_genre) can fail.

Code:

>>> a = u'N\\xe3o-fic\\xe7\\xe3o'
>>> print (a)
N\xe3o-fic\xe7\xe3o
>>> b = repr(a)
>>> print (b)
u'N\\xe3o-fic\\xe7\\xe3o'
>>> print (repr(b))
"u'N\\\\xe3o-fic\\\\xe7\\\\xe3o'"
>>> eval(b) == a
True
>>>

I have no idea what you are doing, but it isn't what you say you're doing.

07-23-2014, 02:17 PM	#19
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,455 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I give up, your output is completely self conflicting. In the next to last post you have print repr(u_genre) --> u"u'Fiction:General'" If that is the case there is no way that eval(u_genre) can fail. Code: >>> a = u'N\\xe3o-fic\\xe7\\xe3o' >>> print (a) N\xe3o-fic\xe7\xe3o >>> b = repr(a) >>> print (b) u'N\\xe3o-fic\\xe7\\xe3o' >>> print (repr(b)) "u'N\\\\xe3o-fic\\\\xe7\\\\xe3o'" >>> eval(b) == a True >>> I have no idea what you are doing, but it isn't what you say you're doing.