Test for a unicode string

[Martin Marcher]

2007/10/24, goldtech <goldtech at worldpost.com>:
> Question: Is there a way to test a string for unicode chars (ie. test
> if a string will throw the error cited above).

yes there ist :)

>>> isinstance(u"a", basestring)
True
>>> isinstance(u"a", unicode)
True
>>> isinstance("a", unicode)
False
>>> isinstance("a", str)
True
>>> isinstance(u"a", str)
False


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