python unicode support

I'm trying to figure out how to use the unicode support in python; I would like to convert this string to unicode : "AB开发者_运维百科CDE" --> "\x00A\x00B\x00C\x00D\x00E"

Any built-in functionnality can do that, or shall i use join() ?

Thanks !

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That's UTF-16BE, not Unicode.

>>> 'ABCDE'.decode('ascii').encode('utf-16be')
'\x00A\x00B\x00C\x00D\x00E'

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The key to understanding unicode in python is that unicode means UNICODE. A unicode object is an idealized representation to the characters, not actual bytes.

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the str object should be firstly converted to unicode object by decode method. then convert the unicode object to str object using encode method with character-encoding you want.