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Does

text = unicode(text)

make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a
free operation if the input is already Unicode?

John Nagle

John Nagle wrote in news:4780fb68$0$36341$ in
comp.lang.python:

> Does
>
> text = unicode(text)
>
> make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a
> free operation if the input is already Unicode?
>
> John Nagle
>

http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-78

... More precisely, if object is a Unicode string or subclass it
will return that Unicode string without any additional decoding
applied.
...


Rob.
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John Nagle wrote:
> Does
>
> text = unicode(text)
>
> make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a
> free operation if the input is already Unicode?

>>> u = u"some long unicode object"
>>> unicode(u) is u
True

John Nagle wrote:
> Does
>
> text = unicode(text)
>
> make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a
> free operation if the input is already Unicode?

>>> u = u"some long unicode object"
>>> unicode(u) is u
True

On Jan 6, 9:06 am, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
> Does
>
> text = unicode(text)
>
> make a copy of a Unicode string, or is that essentially a
> free operation if the input is already Unicode?
>
> John Nagle

>>> u = u"abc"
>>> uu = unicode(u)
>>> u is uu
True
>>> s = "abc"
>>> ss = unicode(s)
>>> s is ss
False

HTH,
Jon Peck

In article <70b9f250-a7b5-423e-8395->,
JKPeck <> wrote:
>
>>>> u = u"abc"
>>>> uu = unicode(u)
>>>> u is uu
>True
>>>> s = "abc"
>>>> ss = unicode(s)
>>>> s is ss
>False

You uuencode Unicode?
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