utf - string translation

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Duncan Booth wrote:
> hg <hg at nospam.com> wrote:
> 
>>> or in other words, put this at the top of your file (where "utf-8" is
>>> whatever your editor/system is using):
>>>
>>>    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>>
>>> and use
>>>
>>>    u'<text>'
>>>
>>> for all non-ASCII literals.
>>>
>>> </F>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The problem is that:
>>
>> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> import string
>> print len('a')
>> print len('à')
>>
>> returns 1 then 2
> 
> And if you do what was suggested and write:
> 
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> import string
> print len(u'a')
> print len(u'à')
> 
> then you get:
> 
> 1
> 1
OK,

How would you handle the string.maketrans then ?

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