On Jan 6, 9:06 am, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does > > text = unicode(text) > > make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a > free operation if the input is already Unicode? > > John Nagle
>>> u = u"abc" >>> uu = unicode(u) >>> u is uu True >>> s = "abc" >>> ss = unicode(s) >>> s is ss False HTH, Jon Peck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
