Back in the good ol’ days, we quickly learned that we could not decode a unicode string and we could not encode a str type either. If we tried to take a unicode string and decode it to ASCII (i.e. convert it to a byte string), we would get a UnicodeEncodeError.

Decoding

Here we have a simple example and we will test it with both Python2 and Python3.

Testing the code with Python2

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An Intro to Argument Parsing using argparse

The collections module

Context Managers

The functools module

All About Imports

The importlib Module

Iterators and Generators

The itertools Module

Regular Expressions

The typing Module

Python Built-ins

Unicode

Benchmarking

Encryption and Cryptography

Databases

The super built-in

Descriptors

Scope

Web Scraping

Web APIs

Working with FTP

The urllib Module

The doctest Module

The unittest Module

The mock Module

An Intro to coverage.py

The asyncio Module

The threading Module

The multiprocessing Module

The concurrent.futures Module

Conclusion

Encoding / Decoding

Decoding

Testing the code with Python2