Regular Expressions & Text Processing

Unicode, Bytes & Encoding

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str vs bytes: Two Fundamentally Different Types

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YOU’RE LEARNING TO

↗learner can distinguish Python str (Unicode) from bytes and explain code points

↗learner can encode and decode strings with the correct encoding

↗learner can diagnose and fix UnicodeDecodeError and UnicodeEncodeError

↗learner can explain UTF-8 vs UTF-16 vs Latin-1 and when each is used

↗learner can apply Unicode normalization (NFC/NFD) for comparison and processing