Re: Some starting-out IPython questions

Fernando Perez skrev:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Dick Moores <rdmoores <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Ah. Nice. But another problem. I can't read the unit of time. See
>> attached image.
> 
> That character is a 'mu' for microseconds.  I don't know why it
> doesn't display correctly under windows though.  We could be
> mis-encoding it, or it could be a font issue with the windows console.
>  Someone more knowledgeable than me on all things win32 may be able to
> help here.
> 
Hi,

I believe the reason is that the reportstring for the timeit magic 
function is built from regular strings and not unicode strings. I have 
attached a patch that works on windows for me.

/Jörgen

=== modified file 'IPython/Magic.py'
--- IPython/Magic.py	2008-07-06 16:54:20 +0000
+++ IPython/Magic.py	2008-07-13 11:45:55 +0000
@@ -1755,7 +1755,7 @@
         import timeit
         import math

-        units = ["s", "ms", "\xc2\xb5s", "ns"]
+        units = [u"s", u"ms", u"\xb5s", u"ns"]
         scaling = [1, 1e3, 1e6, 1e9]

         opts, stmt = self.parse_options(parameter_s,'n:r:tcp:',
@@ -1804,7 +1804,7 @@
             order = min(-int(math.floor(math.log10(best)) // 3), 3)
         else:
             order = 3
-        print "%d loops, best of %d: %.*g %s per loop" % (number, repeat,
+        print u"%d loops, best of %d: %.*g %s per loop" % (number, repeat,
                                                           precision,
                                                           best * scaling[order],
                                                           units[order])

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