Parsing U + 00BE (¾) for a number in python

Question

I have a string that represents an ingredient with quantity, unit, description, etc.

¾ cup fresh pineapple, cut in small chunks or canned pineapple tidbits, drained

I would like to parse this string into an object that contains all the different characteristics of this ingredient.

The problem I'm running into is that I don't know how to convert the number (¾) from the Unicode representation to a normal number.

How can I parse this sentence to get a result like 3/4 or 0.75?

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user7776232 June 18 17 at 18:31

1 answer

vZ10 · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-18T18:37:14+0000

import unicodedata
unicodedata.numeric(u'¾')

will give you 0.75 (or without u if Python 3+)