> Python somehow magically slices unicode strings without chopping characters in half. Well, that rather depends on what you mean by "character" and "in half".

> Python somehow magically slices unicode strings without chopping characters in half. Well, that rather depends on what you mean by "character" and "in half". >>> s = u're\u0301sume\u0301' >>> print s résumé >>> len(s) 8 >>> for i in xrange(len(s)): ... print s[i] ... r e s u m e >>> print ' '.join(s) r e ́ s u m e ́