Re: UnicodeDecodeError

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:16:27PM +0100, Frank Burkhardt wrote:
> I'm not really a python expert. How do I determine, if a variable is unicode or
> not? I used the debugger but type(ob,u,...) just told me, that those objects are
> of type "str".

Then they are not unicode.

pw@kermit ~ $ python2.3
Python 2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 10:36:02) 
[GCC 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1,
ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie- on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> type(u'hello')
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type('hello')
<type 'str'>

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