right-to-left languages in Python

Question

I want to write a Hebrew string in Python and then show it onscreen. The problem is that I get a mirror view of what I wrote. How can I set the string to use RTL instead of

Answer 1

did you try this?

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-bidi/

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-bidi-utils

the Israeli FOSS comunnity is doing a lot in the direction, suprisingly, they happily collaborate also with Farsi speakers :-)

pyfribidi for windows or any other bidi algorithm

Answer 2

I know I'm pretty late to the party, but you can always use:

 " שלום hello "[::-1]

But the real solution is to use:

from bidi.algorithm import get_display
print(get_display("היי"))