# encoding:utf-8
import os, sys, timeit
print(sys.version)
examples = [
"a=['$b','$z']",
"a=['$λ','$η']",
"a=['$b','$η']",
"a=['$\U00020000','$\U00020001']"]
baseDir = "C:/Users/Neil/Documents/"
#~ baseDir = "C:/Users/Neil/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Sigma/QtReimplementation/HLFKBase/Win32/x64/Debug"
for t in examples:
    t = t.replace("$", baseDir)
    # Using os.write as simple way get UTF-8 to stdout
    os.write(sys.stdout.fileno(), t.encode("utf-8"))
    print(sys.getsizeof(t))
    print(timeit.repeat("a[0] < a[1]",t,number=5000000))
    print()