May 3, 2018 · I have a browser which sends utf-8 characters to my Python server, but when I retrieve it from the query string, the encoding that Python returns is ASCII. How can I convert …

Mar 3, 2009 · In Python 3, the default encoding is "utf-8", so you can directly use: b'hello'.decode() which is equivalent to b'hello'.decode(encoding="utf-8") On the other hand, in Python 2, …

Called by the str() built-in function and by the print statement to compute the "informal" string representation of an object. Use __str__ if you have a class, and you'll want an …

Both str() and repr() have the same basic job: their goal is to return a string representation of a Python object. What kind of string representation is what differentiates them.

232 There are two types of string in Python 2: the traditional str type and the newer unicode type. If you type a string literal without the u in front you get the old str type which stores 8-bit …

Oct 29, 2019 · Formatted string literals, str.format (), and format () will use the mixed-in type’s format () unless str () or format () is overridden in the subclass, in which case the overridden …

Jan 30, 2011 · 1618 In Python 3.x, the correct way to check if s is a string is isinstance(s, str) The bytes class isn't considered a string type in Python 3. In Python 2.x, the correct check was …

How to resolve TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str [duplicate] Asked 7 years, 3 months ago Modified 2 years, 6 months ago Viewed 672k times

Jun 23, 2019 · There is no typecast and no type coercion in Python. You have to convert your variable in an explicit way. To convert an object into a string you use the str() function. It works …

Dec 14, 2010 · For handling multiple strings in a list, see How to concatenate (join) items in a list to a single string. See How do I put a variable’s value inside a string (interpolate it into the …