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Introduction to Unicode

Introduction to Unicode

Let's learn how strings can be unicode.

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One of the major changes in Python 3 was the move to make all strings Unicode. Previously, there was a str type and a unicode type. For example:

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# Python 2
x = 'blah'
print (type(x))
y = u'blah'
print (type(y))

If we do the same thing in Python 3, you will note that it always returns a string type:

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# Python 3
x = 'blah'
print (type(x))
y = u'blah'
print (type(y) )

Testing unicode variable name in Python 2

Testing unicode

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