sorry,my poor english. I got a solution from others. I must use utf-8 for chinese.
>>> import sys >>> reload(sys) >>> sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8") >>> s='\xe9\xab\x98' #this uff-8 string >>> ss=U'\xe9\xab\x98' >>> ss1=ss.encode('unicode_escape').decode('string_escape') >>> s1=s.decode('unicode_escape') >>> s1==ss True >>> ss1==s True >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list