[Python-3000] Unicode and OS strings

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Sep 14 13:30:10 CEST 2007


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On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:08 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:

> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> You can't win that, because Unicode is the only encoding that  
>> attempts
>> to guarantee even the possibility of round-tripping.
>
> Rubbish -- I can do print [ord(c) for c in my_unicode_string]
> and get perfect round-trippability if I want.

I think my_unicode_string.encode('raw-unicode-escape) is equivalent.

- -Barry



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