pythoncommon newbie mistakespart (rachum com/blog//python-common-newbiemistakes-part- /pythoncommon newbie mistakespart (rachum com/blog//python-common-newbiemistakes-part- /many other resources are available for people who are just starting with pythonbut these particular resources are succinct and easy to understand you can read them in relatively short timemake some notes about them for later useand avoid those embarrassing errors that everyone tends to remember understanding unicode although this book tries to sidestep the thorny topic of unicodeyou'll eventually encounter it when you start writing serious applications unfortunatelyunicode is one of those topics that had committee deciding what unicode would look likeso we ended up with more than one poorly explained definition of unicode and multitude of standards to define it in shortthere is no one definition for unicode you'll encounter wealth of unicode standards when you start working with more advanced python applicationsespecially when you start working with multiple human languages (each of which seems to favor its own flavor of unicodekeeping in mind the need to discover just what unicode ishere are some resources you should check outthe absolute minimum every software developer absolutelypositively must know about unicode and character sets (no excuses!(www joelonsoftware com/articles/unicode htmlthe updated guide to unicode on python (org//the-updated-guide-to-unicode/python encodings and unicode (com/python-encodings-and-unicode htmlunicode tutorials and overviews (standard/tutorial-info htmlexplain it like ' fivepython and unicode(www reddit com/ /python/comments/ ehexplain_it_like_im_five_python_and_unicode/unicode pain (