Python unicode terminal output -

please me, tried lot of technics, cant make python print utf-8 symbols on screen.

i need read utf-8 coded standard input stream, count characters , print occurrences on screen.

here code:

import re collections import counter import sys import codecs  sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('utf-8')(sys.stdin) sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout) chars = re.findall(r'.', sys.stdin.read().lower()) counted_chars = counter(chars).most_common(20) print counted_chars 

i tried this

reload(sys) sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8') 

but not working. on screen like:

(u'\u043e', 90) 

and these characters (u'\u043e') reason not displayed normal letters.

but if in console following:

>>> = u'\u043e' >>> print  

everything fine ,

what doing wrong? please explain me or point me right link. have been searched more 3 hours , have no success in solving problem.

thank lot.

counter.most_common() returns list of tuples, when printing data structures in python tuples , lists inner object has representation printed (whatever repr(x) return).

to print characters using str() instead of repr() need iterate list , print them separately, example:

for char, count in counted_chars:     print char, count