How to make unicode string with python3

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I used this :

u = unicode(text, 'utf-8')

But getting error with Python 3 (or... maybe I just forgot to include something) : 

NameError: global name 'unicode' is not defined

Thank you.

unicode python-3.x python
6 Answers

This how I solved my problem to convert chars like \uFE0F, \u000A, etc. And also emojis that encoded with 16 bytes.

example = 'raw vegan chocolate cocoa pie w chocolate & vanilla cream\\uD83D\\uDE0D\\uD83D\\uDE0D\\u2764\\uFE0F Present Moment Caf\\u00E8 in St.Augustine\\u2764\\uFE0F\\u2764\\uFE0F '
import codecs
new_str = codecs.unicode_escape_decode(example)[0]
print(new_str)
>>> 'raw vegan chocolate cocoa pie w chocolate & vanilla cream\ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\ude0d❤️ Present Moment Cafè in St.Augustine❤️❤️ '
new_new_str = new_str.encode('utf-16', errors='surrogatepass').decode('utf-16')
print(new_new_str)
>>> 'raw vegan chocolate cocoa pie w chocolate & vanilla cream❤️ Present Moment Cafè in St.Augustine❤️❤️ '
user_45328710

the easiest way in python 3.x

text = "hi , I'm text"
text.encode('utf-8')
user_72446340

In a Python 2 program that I used for many years there was this line:

ocd[i].namn=unicode(a[:b], 'utf-8')

This did not work in Python 3.

However, the program turned out to work with:

ocd[i].namn=a[:b]

I don't remember why I put unicode there in the first place, but I think it was because the name can contains Swedish letters åäöÅÄÖ. But even they work without "unicode".

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