* Michael Ströder (Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:43:09 +0200)
> These both expressions are equivalent but which is faster or should be
> used for any reason?
>
> u = unicode(s,'utf-8')
>
> u = s.decode('utf-8') # looks nicer
"decode" was added in Python 2.2 for the sake of symmetry to encode().
It's essentially the same as unicode() and I wouldn't be surprised if it
is exactly the same. I don't think any measurable speed increase will be
noticeable between those two.
Thorsten
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