Can I change a unicode char to gb2312 using python?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:46:41PM +0800, Kick wrote:
> I know that Java have a method that can manually encode string, like that,
> System.out.println(new String("some chinese char".getBytes()"GB2312"))
> 
> Is there any python function or method can do the same work?

   http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/string-methods.html

   Python strings has method "encode":

      u'sigma'.encode('gb2312')

Oleg.
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