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Built-in function unicode() provides access to all registered Unicode codecs

#Built-in function unicode() provides access to all registered Unicode codecs 
#(COders and DECoders). 

#Some of the more well known encodings which these codecs can convert are Latin-1, 
#ASCII, UTF-8, and UTF-16. 

 #The latter two are variable-length encodings that store each Unicode character in 
#one or more bytes. The default encoding is normally set to ASCII, which passes 
#through characters in the range 0 to 127 and rejects any other characters with an 
#error. When a Unicode string is printed, written to a file, or converted with 
#str(), conversion takes place using this default encoding.

print u"abc"

print str(u"abc")

print u"\0102"

print str(u"\0104")

           
       

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