What is this 'u' in my list

[Erik Max Francis]

Antun Karlovac wrote:

> I just created a list and when I printed it out to the console, I
> got:-
> 
> [u'name', u'size', u'expression', u'number', u'reference', u'string',
> u'color']
> 
> What is the u before the string?

It means it's Unicode.  Use the .encode method of the Unicode objects to
convert them to some other encoding.

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