python设置字符串为utf8_如何在Python中将字符串转换为utf-8

I have a browser which sends utf-8 characters to my Python server, but when I retrieve it from the query string, the encoding that Python returns is ASCII. How can I convert the plain string to utf-8?

NOTE: The string passed from the web is already UTF-8 encoded, I just want to make Python to treat it as UTF-8 not ASCII.

解决方案>>> plain_string = "Hi!"

>>> unicode_string = u"Hi!"

>>> type(plain_string), type(unicode_string)

(, )

^ This is the difference between a byte string (plain_string) and a unicode string.

>>> s = "Hello!"

>>> u = unicode(s, "utf-8")

^ Converting to unicode and specifying the encoding.