Re: how to find out utf or not

From	Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject	Re: how to find out utf or not
Date	2013-11-05 08:41 -0600
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On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh 
<mohsen@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote:
> Suppose i have a variable such as : myVar = 'x'

> May be it initialized with myVar = u'x' or myVar = 'x'

> So i need determine content of myVar that it's utf-8 or not, how 
can i
> do it?

Use the type() function and compare to unicode or str respectively.
E.g.  If type(myvar)==unicode:

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DaveA

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Re: how to find out utf or not Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-05 08:41 -0600
  Re: how to find out utf or not Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-11-05 15:30 +0000
    Re: how to find out utf or not Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-11-06 00:03 -0600

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