Python: block character will not print

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In IDLE, print(chr(219)) (219's the block character) outputs "Û".

Is there any way to get it to output the block character instead?

This might actually be some sort of computer-wide problem, as I cannot seem to get the block character to print from anywhere, copying it out of charmap and into any textbox just results in the Û.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02 23:31:38Z

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Use the correct character set.

3>> print(bytes((219,)).decode('cp437'))
█
3>> ord(bytes((219,)).decode('cp437'))
9608
3>> hex(9608)
'0x2588'
3>> print('\u2588')
█

Unicode Character 'FULL BLOCK' (U+2588)

edited Oct 2, 2012 at 23:31

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 23:24

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Ian Clelland · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02 23:28:40Z

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Your python shell is probably using either ISO-8859-1 or Unicode, not he same character set as Character Map.

chr(219) is also U+00DB, which is probably the Unicode character Û. I don't know what character set you are using, but there aren't any symbol characters that early in the Unicode character set.

answered Oct 2, 2012 at 23:28

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