how do I type Greek letters in Python?

[CptPicard]

I know but it's an excercise from a book and I should type it that way

What kind of book? Why? What difference does it make?

[AirbornEagle]

What kind of book? Why? What difference does it make?

the book is "Python programming: an introduction to computer science - John Zelle"

It doesn't really make any difference, it's just matter of learning to type those characters since I came across them

[AirbornEagle]

the following code shows all the greek letters

for greek_code in range(0x3b1,0x3ca):
    greek_char = unichr(greek_code).encode('utf-8')
    print hex(greek_code), greek_char

you may find more infos about how to use unicode in your python scripts here:
http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html

thanks

[nvteighen]

This works flawlessly for me.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

alpha = raw_input("Type α:")
if alpha == "α":
    print "ἄριστα."
else:
    print "τοῦτο οὐ ἐστὶ τὸ ἄλφα."

Translating the print statements is left as an exercise to the reader.

[alan9800]

This works flawlessly for me.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

alpha = raw_input("Type α:")
if alpha == "α":
    print "ἄριστα."
else:
    print "τοῦτο οὐ ἐστὶ τὸ ἄλφα."

Translating the print statements is left as an exercise to the reader.

Perhaps I've forgot something of what I studied at the high school, but shouldn't the first string be "ἄριστον" instead of "ἄριστα"?

[nvteighen]

Perhaps I've forgot something of what I studied at the high school, but shouldn't the first string be "ἄριστον" instead of "ἄριστα"?

It's a synonym