michele> BTW what's the difference between .encode and .decode ?
I started to answer, then got confused when I read the docstrings for
unicode.encode and unicode.decode:
>>> help(u"\xe4".decode)
Help on built-in function decode:
decode(...)
S.decode([encoding[,errors]]) -> string or unicode
Decodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults
to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise
a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'
as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is
able to handle UnicodeDecodeErrors.
>>> help(u"\xe4".encode)
Help on built-in function encode:
encode(...)
S.encode([encoding[,errors]]) -> string or unicode
Encodes S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults
to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise
a UnicodeEncodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace' and
'xmlcharrefreplace' as well as any other name registered with
codecs.register_error that can handle UnicodeEncodeErrors.
It probably makes sense to one who knows, but for the feeble-minded like
myself, they seem about the same.
I'd be happy to add a couple examples to the string methods section of the
docs if someone will produce something simple that makes the distinction
clear.
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