To clarify a couple of points: On Feb 18, 11:38 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A unicode string looks like this: > > s = u'\u0041' > > but your string looks like this: > > s = 'he Company\xef\xbf\xbds ticker' > > Note that there is no 'u' in front of your string. >
That means your string is a regular string. > If a python function requires a unicode string and a unicode string > isn't provided.. For example: encode(). One last point: you can't display a unicode string. The very act of trying to print a unicode string causes it to be converted to a regular string. If you try to display a unicode string without explicitly encode()'ing it first, i.e. converting it to a regular string using a specified secret code--a so called 'codec', python will implicitly attempt to convert the unicode string to a regular string using the default codec, which is usually set to ascii. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
