Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> added the comment: Yes, the faq entry has example code like "value = unicode(value, "utf-8")" This whole section now applies when 'value' is a bytes or bytearray object and one calls str(value). For portability, one should in 2.6/7 use unicode strings as much as possible and the bytes and unicode functions but not the str function. Then 2to3.py will change 'unicode' to 'str'. This should be a separate FAQ entry (if not already), for both 2.x and 3.x, with more complete advice from MLV (from whom I am parroting the above). ---------- nosy: +tjreedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8694> _______________________________________

Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> added the comment: Yes, the faq entry has example code like "value = unicode(value, "utf-8")" This whole section now applies when 'value' is a bytes or bytearray object and one calls str(value). For portability, one should in 2.6/7 use unicode strings as much as possible and the bytes and unicode functions but not the str function. Then 2to3.py will change 'unicode' to 'str'. This should be a separate FAQ entry (if not already), for both 2.x and 3.x, with more complete advice from MLV (from whom I am parroting the above). ---------- nosy: +tjreedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8694> _______________________________________