Name

unicode

Synopsis

unicode(string[,codec[,errors]])

Returns the Unicode string object obtained by decoding string. codec names the codec to use. If codec is missing, unicode uses the default codec (generally 'ascii'). errors, if present, is a string that specifies how to handle decoding errors. See also Section 9.6 in Chapter 9, particularly for information about codecs and errors, and __unicode__ in Chapter 5.

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