Can I get the 8bit-string representation of any unicode string

[wanghz at gmail.com]

Hi,

I see.  Thank you for your help!


Regards,
hongzheng

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> wanghz at gmail.com wrote
>
> > I may misunderstood it.  I will think about it carefully.
> >
> > By the way, does python has a interface, just like iconv in libc for
> > C/C++?  Or, how can I convert a string from a encoding into another
> > one?
>
> if b is an 8-bit string containing an encoded unicode string,
>
>     u = b.decode(encoding)
>
> or
>
>     u = unicode(b, encoding)
>
> gives you a unicode string.  to encode the unicode string back to another
> byte string, use the encode method.
> 
>     b = u.encode(encoding)
> 
> </F>