create a string of variable lenght

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Tracubik wrote:
> Il Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:46:16 +0100, Günther Dietrich ha
> scritto:
> 
>> Maybe you might solve this if you decode your string to unicode.
>> Example:
>>
>> |>>> euro = "€"
>> |>>> len(euro)
>> |3
>> |>>> u_euro = euro.decode('utf_8')
>> |>>> len(u_euro)
>> |1
>>
>> Adapt the encoding ('utf_8' in my example) to whatever you use.
>>
>> Or create the unicode string directly:
>>
>> |>>> u_euro = u'€'
>> |>>> len(u_euro)
>> |1
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Günther
> 
> thank you, your two solution is really interesting.
> is there a possible to set unicode encoding by default for my python 
> scripts?
> i've tried inserting 
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> 
> at the beginning of my script but doesn't solve the problem

That tells Python which encoding the file is using, but you still need
to save the file in that encoding.