John Morey wrote: > I have a variable that contains a string which may or may not include > unicode characters, I understand that I declare a unicode string like this > u'whatever' , the question is that when that string is read in from > an external source (in this case an id3 tag) how do I make the > interpretter understand that it may contain unicode?
Read it as a string, and then decode it with the .decode method. You specify what encoding it's in. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis You are in the music / In the man's car next to me -- Sade -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
