On 2013-11-05, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 16:32:57 +0330, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh ><moh...@pahlevanzadeh.org> wrote: >> Suppose i have a variable such as : myVar = 'x' > >> May be it initialized with myVar = u'x' or myVar = 'x' > >> So i need determine content of myVar that it's utf-8 or not, how > can i >> do it? > > Use the type() function and compare to unicode or str > respectively. E.g. If type(myvar)==unicode:
That will tell you wether it's a unicode string or a byte string, but not the encoding of the source bytes. Unless there's some context I'm not privy to. u'x' is (hopefully) decoded already, but the encoding of 'x' is unknown. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
