I like Unicode more than I used to...

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> >>> f.write("abc\r\n")
    >> >>> f.write(u"\N{TRADE MARK SIGN}\r\n")
    >> >>> f.write(u"\u8482\r\n")

    Steven> Incidentally, the trade mark sign was referred to as character
    Steven> 8482 in that other thread because that's its decimal value:

Yeah, I figured that out, but thought the glyph that was rendered was kinda
cool...

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