Python: How can I replace full-width characters with half-width characters?

Question

If this was PHP, I would probably do something like this:

function no_more_half_widths($string){
  $foo = array(\'１\',\'２\',\'３\',\'４\',\'５\',\'６\',\'７\',\'８         


        

Answer 1

Using the unicode.translate method:

>>> table = dict(zip(map(ord,u'０１２３４５６７８９'),map(ord,u'0123456789')))
>>> print u'１２３'.translate(table)
123

It requires a mapping of code points as numbers, not characters. Also, using u'unicode literals' leaves the values unencoded.