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Subject: Re: python 2.7 and unicode (one more time)
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> I think that you may get a Unicode/Encode/Error when you try to /decode/ a
> unicode string is more confusing...

Hang on a minute, what does it even mean to decode a Unicode string?
That's where the problem is. Fortunately that's one that Py3 solved -
str simply doesn't have a decode() method.

ChrisA