2009/5/4 Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net>: > str.decode() converts a string to a unicode object. unicode.encode() > converts a unicode object to a (byte) string. Both of these functions > take the encoding as a parameter. When Python is given a string, but > it needs a unicode object, or vice-versa, it will encode or decode as > needed. The encode or decode will use the system default encoding, > which as you have discovered is ascii. If the data being encoded or > decoded contains non-ascii characters, you get an error that you are > familiar with. These errors indicate that you are not correctly > handling encoded data.
Very interesting read Kent! So if I get it correctly you are saying the join() is joining strings of str and unicode type? Then would it help to add a couple of "print type(the_string), the_string" before the .join() help finding which string is not unicode or is unicode where it shouldn't? Thanks Sander _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
