Cost of "unicode(s)" where s is Unicode

[Aahz]

In article <70b9f250-a7b5-423e-8395-d0c4215d2564 at d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
JKPeck  <JKPeck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> u = u"abc"
>>>> uu = unicode(u)
>>>> u is uu
>True
>>>> s = "abc"
>>>> ss = unicode(s)
>>>> s is ss
>False

You uuencode Unicode?
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Sorry, couldn't resist the alliteration