Unicode strings in python, a gentle intro
Summary In this post I will try to explain how to handle them in python 2 and 3. I had long undermined the way I handled strings in my projects, but I could feel the gravity of handling strings properly when I was working on vocabulary, a side project of mine. There was this one feature in it where the module had to return the pronunciation for a given word. Well I wrote the logic to parse the content and all the stuff. I had it all figured out, but then I was facing this issue. ...