Unicode and bytes

Syntax

• str.encode(encoding, errors=‘strict’)
• bytes.decode(encoding, errors=‘strict’)
• open(filename, mode, encoding=None)

Parameters

• encoding | The encoding to use, e.g. 'ascii', 'utf8', etc…
• errors | The errors mode, e.g. 'replace' to replace bad characters with question marks, 'ignore' to ignore bad characters, etc…