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I am trying to use the labeling process to display latitude and longitudes for a set of data points. To make the labels appear formal, I wish to add the degree symbol (°) to the labels. My python syntax goes as follows:

[lat] + "," +" " + [long] and the result is 30.392634, -91.118229.

However, when I attempt to insert the symbol as follows:

[lat] + "°" + "," +" " + [long] + "°" I keep receiving an error.

I am not a code wizard.

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    What is the error message that you receive?
    – PolyGeo ♦
    Dec 15, 2017 at 19:42
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    What version of ArcMap? What error message do you get? I get no error message - it works fine for me - but I am using ArcGIS 10.6. It may be something that has been fixed recently?
    – Midavalo ♦
    Dec 23, 2017 at 22:29

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Try this:

[lat] + u'\u00B0' + ', ' + [long] + u'\u00B0'

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Arcmap python has unicode support so you can use the unicode \u00B0 to enter it.

u"str({0})+'\u00B0  '+str({1})+'\u00B0'".format('!lat!','!long!')
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    This works if you get rid of all the str(), +, and single quotes
    – GISUser9
    Dec 14, 2017 at 16:51
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I know that you specified that you want to use Python for the labelling, but for a short term work around, why not use VBScript?

[lat] & "°, "& [long] & "°"

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