unicode strings and strings mix

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Roman Suzi wrote:
> Is there any way to define "default" encoding so the following error
> will not happen?
> 
> 
>>>>unichr(0x3345) + "вавав"
>>>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
> 
>>>>unichr(0x3345) + "babab"
>>>
> u'\u3345babab'

There is, but it's better not to rely on it since it's a site
specific setting.

You should use unicode("вавав", "koi8-r") instead (or
define a wrapper for this like

def n(text):
     return unicode(text, "koi8-r")

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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