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Python Object-Oriented Python (retired) Inheritance Inheritance Quiz

Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
4,585 Points
Posted by Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
4,585 Points

What is the __unicode__method ?

The quiz has a question on unicode method. I read online that it resembles the str method. What exactly is the difference?

1 Answer

Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher
5,752 Points
Ron Fisher
Ron Fisher
5,752 Points

Keerthi,

I was going to explain it but I found this explanation on stackOverflow and I cannot do any better than they did.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1307014/python-str-versus-unicode

Ron