Erik Max Francis wrote: > Read it as a string, and then decode it with the .decode method. You > specify what encoding it's in.
Most probably, the OP is asking what to do with an UTF-8 encoded string.
To decode that, just use:
s.decode("utf-8")
to get a unicode string object.
Example:
>>> s
'\xc3\xa4\xc3\xb6\xc3\xbc'
>>> print s
ÀöÌ
>>> print s.decode("utf-8")
äöü
>>>
HTH!
--- Heiko.
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