When I try to print string.lowercase it returns a bunch of junk (i.e. ...\x83\x9a\x9c\...) after the 26 lowercase characters. Via googling, I've determined this has something to do with Unicode, but what else do I need to know about how Python will work differently on my system? There's been little/no mention of Unicode issues in the course so far. I'm on the hangman problem set. Short term, I figured out using string.ascii_lowercase instead of string.lowercase, but where can I look to understand the issues/solutions more holistically regarding Python on unicode systems. Can anyone assist?

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anonymous · Answer

http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html