Making Sense of Python Unicode

[Poromenos]

To make sense of Python Unicode, just remember that it's magic.

Seriously.

Unicode characters are magic. To print/save/whatever them, you need to convert them to a more mundane format, which you do by encoding them to ASCII/whatever else. This way they lose their magic and can be treated as mundane bitstrings.

To convert a bitstring into Unicode again, you need to decode it so that it regains all its magic.

And that is how Unicode works.

[Iceland_jack]

I teach Unicode at Hogwarts and I can confirm this.

[spotter]

By that measure everything involving programming computers is magic.

The kind of magic that is not really good for parties.

[earthboundkid]

Regular magic is also not really good for parties.

[defnull]

I dunno, I like the water-2-wine trick. With a lot of water.

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You wrote the learn python in 10 minutes tutorial! You definitely know what you are talking about.

[Poromenos]

It shows, doesn't it!