On Aug 31, 11:04 pm, Asterix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how could I test that those 2 strings are the same: > > 'séd' (repr is 's\\xc3\\xa9d') > > u'séd' (repr is u's\\xe9d')
[note: your reprs are wrong; change the \\ to \] You need to decode the non-unicode string and compare the result with the unicode string. You need to know the encoding used for the non- unicode string. In the example that you gave, it's about 99.99% likely that it's UTF-8. >>> 's\xc3\xa9d'.decode('utf8') u's\xe9d' >>> u's\xe9d'.encode('utf8') 's\xc3\xa9d' >>> HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list