Python, Len And Slices On Unicode Strings

I am handling a situation where I need to make a string fit in the allocated gap in the screen, as I'm using unicode len() and slices[] work apparently on bytes and I end up cuttin

Solution 1:

You're not creating Unicode strings there; you're creating byte strings with UTF-8 encoding (which is variable-length, as you're seeing). You need to use constants of the form u"..." (or u'...'). If you do that, you get the expected result:

% cat test.py
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
a = u"2 €uros"
b = u"2 Euros"
print len(b)
print len(a)
print a[3:]
print b[3:]
% python test.py 
7
7
uros
uros