Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I do not see any bug. Unicode chars do not have an encoding (except internally) The .encode() method encodes the the unicode string to a byte string. It does *not* mutate the string. Since you do not bind the byte string to anything, it disappears. Compare
>>> c = u'\u20ac' >>> b = c.encode() >>> c '€' >>> b b'\xe2\x82\xac' Now you have both the unicode string and the utf-8 encoded byte string that represents the char. >>> b.decode() '€' If you have any more questions, please reread the tutorial or ask on python-list or even the tutor list. Also post there about any 'problems' you find. ---------- components: +Unicode -IDLE nosy: +ezio.melotti, terry.reedy resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17348> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
