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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: to express unicode string
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:03:41 -0500
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On 1/28/2012 2:58 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 01/28/2012 12:21 AM, contro opinion wrote:
>>>>> s=3D'=E4=BD=A0=E5=A5=BD'
>
> On my computer, s is a byte string that contains the utf-8 formatted
> encoding of =E4=BD=A0=E5=A5=BD.

On mine, s is a (unicode) string containing those two characters. That=20
is because I pasted the above into IDLE 3.2.2 (on Win7, but should be=20
the same on all systems). (Pasting into the standard interpreter window, =

which uses Windows stupid Command Prompt interface, does not work.)

To the OP. if you want to work easily with unicode, use Python 3.2 now=20
and Python 3.3 as soon as it comes out, in less than a year. We went=20
through the hassle of changing the string type from bytes to unicode=20
*because* having unicode as merely an add-on type was not working very we=
ll.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy