How does unicode() work?
Robert Latest
boblatest at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 9 15:02:20 EST 2008
John Machin wrote:
> When mixing unicode strings with byte strings, Python attempts to
> decode the str object to unicode, not encode the unicode object to
> str.
Thanks for the explanation. Of course I didn't want to mix Unicode and Latin
in one string, my snippet just tried to illustrate the point. I'm new to
Python -- I came from C, and C gives a rat's ass about encoding. It just
dumps bytes and that's that.
robert
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