John Machin wrote:
The UTF-n siblings are *external* representations.
2.x: a_unicode_object.decode('UTF-16') -> an_str_object
3.x: an_str_object.decode('UTF-16') -> a_bytes_object
That should be .encode() to bytes, which is the coded form. .decode is bytes => str/unicode -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
