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This isn't really related to Unicode. The
doc for the expand method says
The expanded list is returned in the
case as given in the call or the lower case names for expanded entries.
I probably made a design mistake with
that api, but you can get around this with one tiny change:
begin program.
import spssaux
vars = 'V8_1 to V8_12'
dict = spssaux.VariableDict(caseless=True)
print dict.expand(vars)
end program.
The caseless option was added in August,
2009.
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Date:
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Subject:
[SPSSX-L] spssaux.VariableDict.expand
renders casing incorrectly
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Dear all,
I'm working on an old datafile and something weird is going on. There are
variables named "V8_1" to "V8_12" (upper case V). I
tried
begin program.
import spssaux
vars = 'V8_1 to V8_12'
dict = spssaux.VariableDict()
print dict.expand(vars)
end program.
and it returns
['V8_1', u'v8_2', u'v8_3', u'v8_4', u'v8_5', u'v8_6', u'v8_7', u'v8_8',
u'v8_9', u'v8_10', u'v8_11', 'V8_12']
So some variable names are in unicode and therefore lowercased(?) and others
are not?
This makes my loop over them crash with the error:
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\spssaux\spssaux.py",
line 1093, in
__getitem__
raise ValueError, _msg10
ValueError: Variable not in this dictionary
Which probably has to do with inconsistent casing (it's looking for u'v8_2'
but there's only 'V8_2').
Does anybody understand what's going on here and how to prevent this?
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