inserting Unicode character in dictionary - Python

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:38 -0400, gita ziabari wrote:

> The following code does not work for unicode characters:
> 
> keyword = dict()
> kw = 'генских'
> keyword.setdefault(key, []).append (kw)
> 
> It works fine for inserting ASCII character. Any suggestion?

What do you mean by "does not work"?  And you are aware that the above 
snipped doesn't involve any unicode characters!?  You have a byte string 
there -- type `str` not `unicode`.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch