Unicode -> String problem

[Michael Ströder]

Jay Parlar wrote:
> 
> > > Now, whenever I'm given HTML from IE's cache, it is unicode. There is 
> > > no doubt about that.
> >
> > Are you sure? Which encoding of Unicode? UTF-16, UTF-8, ...
> 
> Well, I know that it's Unicode for two reasons:
> 1) The developer
> of the module that generates the HTML from the cache told me so,

Frankly this is not a real reason...

> and 2) I do a check for
> UnicodeType in my own code. I don't think I could tell you
> which encoding it is though (not without knowing how to check
> for that within my code).

I wonder how you want to properly initialize an Unicode object
without knowing the encoding. You should have a closer look at the
cached data and not trust was anybody said. Especially you should
watch out for the HTTP header and <meta> tags.

Then you should get familiar with Unicode handling in Python and the
distinction of strings and Unicode objects by reading the fine
Python docs.

Ciao, Michael.