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gistfile1.py
# Borrow from http://farmdev.com/talks/unicode/
#
# Remember:
# file/network (8-bit string) ----decode() -----> unicode -----encode()--------> file/network
def to_unicode(obj, decoding='utf8'):
"""
decoding a 8-bit string to unicode
"""
if isinstance(obj, basestring):
if not isinstance(obj, unicode):
obj = unicode(obj, decoding)
return obj
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