On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it's a Unicode string (which is the default in Python 3), all > Unicode characters will work correctly.
Assuming the library that needs this is expecting codepoints and will accept integers greater than 255. > If it's a byte string (the > default in Python 2), then you can't actually have any Unicode > characters in it at all, you have bytes; Py2 lets you be a bit sloppy > with the ASCII range, but technically, you still have bytes, not > characters.. In that case the library will almost certainly accept it, but could be expecting a different encoding. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
