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> Would that mean that the string "myString" is an ascii-string or what?
It would mean it was a byte encoded string already, yes. When you try to
encode it, Python tries to coerce it to Unicode and it's equivalent to:
myString.decode('ascii').encode('iso-8859-1','ignore')
That wouldn't explain why printing it gave errors though.
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