python一些编码的转换格式问题

python经常有一些编码格式的问题西面有几种转码的方式：

unicodestring = u"Hello world" 

# 将Unicode转化为普通Python字符串："encode"  

utf8string = unicodestring.encode("utf-8")  

asciistring = unicodestring.encode("ascii")  

isostring = unicodestring.encode("ISO-8859-1")  

utf16string = unicodestring.encode("utf-16")  

# 将普通Python字符串转化为Unicode："decode"  

plainstring1 = unicode(utf8string, "utf-8")  

plainstring2 = unicode(asciistring, "ascii")  

plainstring3 = unicode(isostring, "ISO-8859-1")  

plainstring4 = unicode(utf16string, "utf-16")  

assert plainstring1 == plainstring2 == plainstring3 == plainstring4