quick unicode Q

[Erik Max Francis]

John Morey wrote:

> I have a variable that contains a string which may or may not include 
> unicode characters, I understand that I declare a unicode string like this
> u'whatever' , the question is that when that string is read in from
> an external source (in this case an id3 tag) how do I make the
> interpretter understand that it may contain unicode?

Read it as a string, and then decode it with the .decode method.  You 
specify what encoding it's in.

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