a = u"Hello" # Unicode: 0045 0065 006c 006c 006f f = open("foo","w") f.write(a) # ????
45 00 65 00 6c 00 6c 00 6f 00
00 45 00 65 00 6c 00 6c 00 6f
45 65 6c 6c 6f