Ascii to Unicode.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.1307.1280425706.1673.python-list at python.org>, Joe 
Goldthwaite wrote:

> Next I tried to write the unicodestring object to a file thusly;
> 
> output.write(unicodestring)
> 
> I would have expected the write function to request the byte string from
> the unicodestring object and simply write that byte string to a file.

Encoded according to which encoding?