Unicode confusion

[Tim Cook]

Hi All,

I'm not clear on how to use the unicode module.

I need to be able to use certain characters such as the degree symbol
and the mu symbol, i.e.:													units = <"°">

if I say units=unicode("°").  I get 
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 0:
ordinal not in range(128)

If I try x=unicode.decode(x,'utf-8'). I get
TypeError: descriptor 'decode' requires a 'unicode' object but received
a 'str'

What is the correct way to interpret these symbols that come to me as a
string?

Thanks,
Tim





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