Encoding / Decoding
Explore how to effectively encode and decode strings in Python 3 by understanding the role of Unicode and byte strings. Learn to handle encoding errors and use flags to manage non-ASCII characters. This lesson helps you confidently work with text encoding for multilingual applications.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Back in the good ol’ days, we quickly learned that we could not decode a unicode string and we could not encode a str type either.
If we tried to take a unicode string and decode it to ASCII (i.e. convert it to a byte string), we would get a UnicodeEncodeError.
Decoding
Here we have a simple example and we will test it with both Python2 and Python3.
Testing the code with Python2
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