CiTro wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to convert a string to it's unicode "brother".
>
> This means:
>
> stringOne = "\u0026"
> stringTwo = u"\u0026"
>
> print unicode(stringOne) == stringTwo
>
> The result is false. What function should I use, to duplicate the
> effect of the "u" prefix ?
"\u..." has a special meaning only in unicode, not string literals:
>>> s = "\u0026"
>>> len(s)
6
>>> s.decode("unicode-escape")
u'&'
>>> _ == u"\u0026"
True
Peter
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