On Nov 17, 9:18 pm, Johan von Boisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I missed the beginning of this thread, but why not write > > s = u"äÄöÖüÜß" > > Is there ever a reason _not_ to exclusively use the unicode stringtype > throughout your Python program? (of course you may need to encode/decode > when interfacing with the world outside your program) >
Please consider going back and finding the beginning of the thread. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
