Beginning Python: Python Encodings

From Al Lukaszewski, former About.com Guide

Another way to use the encode function is to convert the value on-the-fly, including it in the print statement.

 print x.encode("utf-8")
 print y.encode("utf-8")
 print z.encode("utf-8") 

If this is still too much typing, you will be glad to know that Python will take any object for the encode function, even an iterator. Therefore, one can also feed the encoding argument to a series of Unicode strings like this:

 >>> convert_on_output = (x, y, z) 
 >>> for j in convert_on_output: 
 ...     print j.encode("utf-8") 
 ... 
 ש 
 Ù„ 
 პ 

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• The Reason for Encodings in Python
• How to Work with Unicode in Python
• Python's Way of Defining a Unicode String
• How Python Prints Unicode
• Python's Way of Encoding Unicode Strings "En Passant"
• Encoding ASCII as Unicode with Python
• Python Makes ASCII "Hello" Read as "Hello" in Unicode

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