python gives wrong string length and wrong character

[thienson30]

Below python gives wrong string length. The Length should be 4 and w[1] should be 'ò', but python give back letter 'o'. Please help.

>>> w ='lòng >>> w 'lòng' >>> print (w) lòng >>> len(w) 5 >>> for ch in w: ... print (ch + "-") ... l- o- - n- g- >>> 

[metulburr]

what encoding is this? You can encode it via encode() method

>>> len('lòng') 5 >>> len('lòng'.encode('ascii','ignore')) 4

[Gribouillis]

Try this

>>> w = 'l\u00F2ng' >>> w 'lòng' >>> print(w) lòng >>> len(w) 4

Your initial string could be a mojibake.