Convert a Unicode string into an 8-bit string : Unicode « Language Basics « Python

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Convert a Unicode string into an 8-bit string

#Convert a Unicode string into an 8-bit string using a specific encoding, 
#Unicode objects provide an encode() method that takes one argument, 
#the name of the encoding. Lowercase names for encodings are preferred.

print u"\xc3\xa4".encode('utf-8')


           
       

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