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Re: how to get my character?

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contro opinion wrote:

> how can i get "你好" from '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3' ?

>>> print '\xc4\xe3\xba\xc3'.decode("gbk")
你好

General rule: use the decode() method to convert from bytestring to unicode 
and encode() to convert from unicode to bytestring.

bytestring.encode(x) will implicitly try 
bytestring.decode("ascii").encode(x) which is likely to fail.

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Re: how to get my character? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-01-26 14:05 +0100

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