How to convert unicode string to unsigned char *

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, 5 May 2008 15:41:08 +0200, Simon Posnjak <sposnjak at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I have a C module for which I created a wrapper with swig. The function def is:
>
>C:
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>int some_thing(unsigned char * the_str);
>
>eg:
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>Python:
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>some_module.some_thing (the_str)
>
>Now I would like to feed it with a UTF-8 formatted string:
>
>test = u'Make \u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645, not war.'

`test´ is not a UTF-8 encoded string.  It's a unicode string.

To get a UTF-8 encoded string from a unicode string, use the `encode´
method:

    some_module.some_thing(test.encode('utf-8'))

Jean-Paul