Python encoding format

1, there are many kinds of coding, Chinese GB2312, ASCII code of the United States, Japanese shift-jis and so on. When storing, the bytes accounted for is not the same, for example: China's GB2312 accounted for two bytes, the United States ASCII accounted for one byte

2, the international unification of a code: Unicode accounted for two bytes, which led to some countries disagree.

3, so will invent the UTF-8, the code is a variable word length encoding format, indicating that the letter with a byte, indicating the Chinese character with two bytes

4, in this case, basically we write code, or text, are stored in UTF-8, but after loading into memory, these things will be interpreted as Unicode encoding, and then converted to binary.

Python encoding format