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On 27/06/2013 16:05, darpan6aya wrote:
> How can i convert text of the following type
>
>      नेपाली
>
> into devnagari unicode in Python 2.7?
>
Is that a bytestring? In other words, is its type 'str'?

If so, you need to decode it. That particular string is UTF-8:

 >>> print "नेपाली".decode("utf-8")
नेपाली