Python: how to solve errors when converting a string (str) to unicode?

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When working with strings in a Python program, if you face errors such as:

TypeError("descriptor 'lower' requires a 'unicode' object but received a 'str'",)

What you are looking for is the instruction below:

unicode(mystr, 'utf-8')

It transcodes your string to the target encoding format.

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