How to get an encoding a value?

[Golawala, Moiz M (GE Infrastructure)]

Hi all, 

I have a some data is encoded into something thing. I want to find out the encoding of that piece of data. For example 
s = u"somedata"
I want to do something like 
ThisIsTheEncodingOfS = s.getencoding()

is there are method that tell me that it is unicode value if I provide it with a unicode string?


Thanks
Moiz Golawala