willie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> ustr = buf.decode('UTF-8')
> >>> type(ustr)
> <type 'unicode'>
> Is it a "unicode object that contains a UTF-8 encoded
> string object?"No, it's just unicode, which is a string over a certain character set. UTF-8 is a way to encode unicode strings as byte strings. You should read the wikipedia article about unicode, it will help you understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
