March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
39h 30m
English
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Name
unicode
Synopsis
unicode(string[,codec[,errors]])
Returns the Unicode string object obtained by decoding
string. codec
names the codec to use. If codec is
missing, unicode uses the default codec (generally
'ascii'). errors, if
present, is a string that specifies how to handle decoding errors.
See also Section 9.6 in Chapter 9, particularly for information about codecs and
errors, and __unicode__ in Chapter 5.