Append unicode Items in python list
<p>I want to test if a Unicode word that passed to the function isn't in the list, function do some manipulate on this word. something like this:</p>

<pre><code>def my_function(word):
    if not word in [u'تست']:
    ...
</code></pre>

<p>well it works perfect. but my list is more bigger than this and I saved its words to a separate file. now I'm trying to read this file lines as words but I don't know how to append theme as Unicode like <code>[u'تست']</code>. I tried to use <code>unicode()</code> but even after that <code>if</code> condition can't find words that are already in the file. </p>
