Re: newbie question about unicode

2007-06-23 Thread Genie T
On Jun 23, 1:06 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:10:19 -0300, Genie T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escribió: > > > can anybody tell me whether these two expressions have the same > > meanings? > > > s = u'' > > s1 = s.encode('utf-8') > > > AND > > > s1 = unicode(

Re: newbie question about unicode

2007-06-23 Thread Genie T
On Jun 23, 12:04 pm, "Carsten Haese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:10:19 -, Genie T wrote > > > Hi, > > > can anybody tell me whether these two expressions have the same > > meanings? > > > s = u'' > > s1 = s.encode('utf-8') > > > AND > > > s1 = unicode(s,'utf-8') > > Cons

Re: newbie question about unicode

2007-06-22 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:10:19 -0300, Genie T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > can anybody tell me whether these two expressions have the same > meanings? > > s = u'' > s1 = s.encode('utf-8') > > AND > > s1 = unicode(s,'utf-8') No - but consider this (assuming your terminal uses utf-8): py> u1 =

Re: newbie question about unicode

2007-06-22 Thread Carsten Haese
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:10:19 -, Genie T wrote > Hi, > > can anybody tell me whether these two expressions have the same > meanings? > > s = u'' > s1 = s.encode('utf-8') > > AND > > s1 = unicode(s,'utf-8') Considering that one works and the other doesn't, no, they don't have the same meanin

newbie question about unicode

2007-06-22 Thread Genie T
Hi, can anybody tell me whether these two expressions have the same meanings? s = u'' s1 = s.encode('utf-8') AND s1 = unicode(s,'utf-8') Thanks :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list