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Instead of typing u in front of each sting?
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In Python 2, a string is by default a binary string and you need to use u'' to mark a string as a Unicode string. However, in Python 3, a string by default is a Unicode string, and you need to use b'' to explicitly mark a string as a binary string.
UTF-8 is one of the most commonly used encodings, and Python often defaults to using it. UTF stands for “Unicode Transformation Format”, and the '8' means that 8-bit values are used in the encoding. (There are also UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings, but they are less frequently used than UTF-8.)
You have two options to create Unicode string in Python. Either use decode() , or create a new Unicode string with UTF-8 encoding by unicode(). The unicode() method is unicode(string[, encoding, errors]) , its arguments should be 8-bit strings.
In Python, the built-in functions chr() and ord() are used to convert between Unicode code points and characters. A character can also be represented by writing a hexadecimal Unicode code point with \x , \u , or \U in a string literal.
Yes, use from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>> s = 'hi'
>>> type(s)
<type 'unicode'>
In Python 3, strings are unicode strings by default.
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