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Small 'u' in front of the quote indicates that an Unicode string

#Small 'u' in front of the quote indicates that an Unicode string is supposed to 
#be created. If you want to include special characters in the string, you can do 
#so by using the Python Unicode-Escape encoding. 


print u'Hello\u0020World !'


           
       

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