At 8:21 AM +1100 2/22/05, Richard Terry wrote:
> > u'' means that this is a unicode string - you can work with these or
> change their coding to ordinary strings, e.g.
>
> u'my text'.encode('latin-1') gives you 'my text" as ordinary string.
You certainly can but please don't unless you have good reason
to really do so. People with non-7-bit-ascii languages will
> run into trouble quite soon if you do.
I read it differently (but could be wrong).
I interpreted Karsten as saying
- "don't worry about the 'u' tag"
- DO avoid changing the coding to ordinary strings
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