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To represent a unicode string as a string of bytes is known as encoding. Use <code>u'...'.encode(encoding)</code>. Example: <pre> >>> u'æøå'.encode('utf8') '\xc3\x83\xc2\xa6\xc3\x83\xc2\xb8\xc3\x83\xc2\xa5' >>> u'æøå'.encode('latin1') '\xc3\xa6\xc3\xb8\xc3\xa5' >>> u'æøå'.encode('ascii') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128) </pre> You typically encode a unicode string whenever you need to use it for IO, for instance transfer it over the network, or save it to a disk file. To convert a string of bytes to a unicode string is known as decoding. Use <code>unicode('...', encoding)</code> or '...'.decode(encoding). Example: <pre> >>> u'æøå' u'\xc3\xa6\xc3\xb8\xc3\xa5' # the interpreter prints the unicode object like so >>> unicode('\xc3\xa6\xc3\xb8\xc3\xa5', 'latin1') u'\xc3\xa6\xc3\xb8\xc3\xa5' >>> '\xc3\xa6\xc3\xb8\xc3\xa5'.decode('latin1') u'\xc3\xa6\xc3\xb8\xc3\xa5' </pre> You typically decode a string of bytes whenever you receive string data from the network or from a disk file. I believe there are some changes in unicode handling in python 3, so the above is probably not correct for python 3. Some good links: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html" rel="noreferrer">The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)</a></li> <li><a href="http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html" rel="noreferrer">Unicode HOWTO</a></li> </ul>
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1. POWhat is the difference between encode/decode?
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1. COYou didn't answer the OP's question. OP wants to know what str.encode() and unicode.decode() do. You just repeated what was stated in the original question.
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