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BUG: IDE doesn't work with special characters
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I need to import some CSV files and search for text. But Pythonista does not find text if there are special characters in it. The special characters (in Pythonista) have a length of 2 and are also composed of 2 characters. But that should be only 1 character. You need an external editor.
You can test it with this:print(len('á')) for x in 'áåä': print(x)
And Pythonista still deletes program code via iCloud! If I write / change something on the iPad and then open it on the iPhone all changes are deleted from Pythonista!
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@7upser said
The special characters (in Pythonista) have a length of 2
You are right but is not Pythonista only, that is so for each OS or language.
Use an array instead of a string:print('use of string') t = 'áåä' print(f'length of {t} = {len(t)}') a = 'å' print(f'length of {a} = {len(a)}') print(f'index of {a} in {t} = {t.index(a)}') print('use of array') t = ['á','å','ä'] print(f'length of {t} = {len(t)}') a = 'å' print(f'index of {a} in {t} = {t.index(a)}')
use of string length of áåä = 6 length of å = 2 index of å in áåä = 2 use of array length of ['á', 'å', 'ä'] = 3 index of å in ['á', 'å', 'ä'] = 1
You said
And Pythonista still deletes program code via iCloud! If I write / change something on the iPad and then open it on the iPhone all changes are deleted from Pythonista!
Sure your script is stored in Pythonista iCloud? And wait some time to be sure that your modification is uploaded on the initial device and downloaded in the other device(s)
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In Pythonista 3.3:
len('á') = 1 (not 2)
That wasn't a problem earlier.
When I edit the script with another editor, like Taio, File Browser Pro the length = 1.Edited with Taio:
print(len('á')) = 1
copy & paste with Pythonista:
print(len('á')) = 2
Reference to the iCloud issue:
I am using Taio editor and tested this. I open the same script in Taio (iPad) and Pythonista (iPad). Then I make changes in Pythonista and switch to Taio. There comes a dialog (Compare, Accept, Discard changes). If I now go to Pythonista (iPhone), the old (unchanged) version is there and Pythonista (iPhone) writes this, old version to the iCloud.
Pythonista does not fetch any current data from iCloud, even after a cold start, Taio does it even without a cold start. The safest way is to open the scripts via iOS Files App.Edit: I often have this problem only on the iPad. I edit with Taio and Pythonista still has the old version.
Sometimes it is, certainly, due to the iCloud. But not always. -