Pb2Au wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Chris Rebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: wrote: >> >>Already exists. Has for quite a while now: >> >>the_unicode = unicode(some_bytes, "name of encoding") > > I know that it had worked in the version 2.5, Python 3.0 rc2 doesn't > seem to recognize it as a function. > > Python 3.0rc2 (r30rc2:67141, Nov 7 2008, 11:43:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit > (Intel)] > on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> unicode() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined
unicode becomes str in Py3k (as "type('')" will tell you). bytes.decode() works as well. Use str.encode() to go the other way. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com