How to concatenate unicode strings ???

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Ariel <isaacrc82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi everybody, how could I concatenate unicode strings ???
>> What I want to do is this:
>>
>> unicode('this an example language ') + unicode('español')
>>
>> but I get an:
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
>> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11:
>> ordinal not in range(128)
>>
>> How could I concatenate unicode strings ???
>>     
>
> That error is from the 2nd call to unicode(), not from the
> concatenation itself. Use proper Unicode string literals:
>
> u'this an example language ' + u'español'
>
> You'll probably also need to add the appropriate source file encoding
> declaration; see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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>   
an example of shebang

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-


that should allow you to write u'español' in your code.

JM