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

[Fredrik Lundh]

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)

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