Unicode & Character Encodings in Python: A Painless Guide

Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings

Christopher Trudeau 9 Lessons 51m advanced best-practices python

Python’s Unicode support is strong and robust, but it takes some time to master. There are many ways of encoding text into binary data, and in this course you’ll learn a bit of the history of encodings. You’ll also spend time learning the intricacies of Unicode, UTF-8, and how to use them when programming Python. You’ll practice with multiple examples and see how smooth working with text and binary data in Python can be!

By the end of this course, you’ll know:

What an encoding is
What ASCII is
How binary displays as octal and hex values
How UTF-8 encodes a code point
How to combine code points into a single glyph
Which built-in functions can help you

What’s Included:

9 Lessons
Video Subtitles and Full Transcripts
2 Downloadable Resources
Accompanying Text-Based Tutorial
Q&A With Python Experts: Ask a Question
Certificate of Completion

Downloadable Resources:

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Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings

9 Lessons 51m

1. Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings (Overview) 07:56

2. Working With ASCII and the Python String Module 05:49

3. Working in Binary: Bits, Bytes, Oct, and Hex 06:26

4. Using Unicode 04:15

5. Encoding UTF-8 06:19

6. Combining Characters 05:40

7. Using Built-In Functions 05:38

8. Using Other Encodings 04:45

9. Unicode in Python: Working With Character Encodings (Summary) 04:53

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About Christopher Trudeau

Christopher has a passion for the Python language and writes for Real Python. He is a consultant who helps advise organizations on how to improve their technical teams.

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