Problems with csv module

[Richie Hindle]

[Florian]
> How can I convert Unicode to ASCII?

You're writing code using Unicode and you don't know how to convert it
ASCII?  You need to do some reading.  Here are a few links - Google can
provide many more:

  http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html#SECTION005130000000000000000
  http://diveintopython.org/xml_processing/unicode.html
  http://www.jorendorff.com/articles/unicode/python.html

The short answer to your question is this:

>>> U = u'My string'
>>> A = U.encode('ascii')
>>> print U, type(U), A, type(A)
My string <type 'unicode'> My string <type 'str'>

but you should really do some reading.

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Richie Hindle
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