Unicode（UTF-8）在Python中读取和写入文件

本文翻译自：Unicode (UTF-8) reading and writing to files in Python

I'm having some brain failure in understanding reading and writing text to a file (Python 2.4). 我在理解文本读取和写入文件时遇到了一些大脑失败（Python 2.4）。

# The string, which has an a-acute in it.
ss = u'Capit\xe1n'
ss8 = ss.encode('utf8')
repr(ss), repr(ss8)

("u'Capit\\xe1n'", "'Capit\\xc3\\xa1n'") （“u'Capit \\ xe1n'”，“'Capit \\ xc3 \\ xa1n'”）

print ss, ss8
print >> open('f1','w'), ss8

>>> file('f1').read()
'Capit\xc3\xa1n\n'

So I type in Capit\\xc3\\xa1n into my favorite editor, in file f2. 所以我在文件f2中输入Capit\\xc3\\xa1n到我最喜欢的编辑器中。

Then: 然后：

>>> open('f1').read()
'Capit\xc3\xa1n\n'
>>> open('f2').read()
'Capit\\xc3\\xa1n\n'
>>> open('f1').read().decode('utf8')
u'Capit\xe1n\n'
>>> open('f2').read().decode('utf8')
u'Capit\\xc3\\xa1n\n'

What am I not understanding here? 我在这里不理解什么？ Clearly there is some vital bit of magic (or good sense) that I'm missing.<