Special characters problems using Python unicode

Question

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf_8 -*-

def splitParagraphIntoSentences(paragraph):

\'\'\' break a paragraph into sentences
    and return a list \'\'\'
             


        

Answer 1

That looks like cp437. Try this:

import codecs, sys
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('UTF-8')(sys.stdout)
print u"valued at £9.2 billion."

This works for me in Python 2.6.