What are those u characters that appear when I use NLTK?

Asked Sep 13 '14 at 13:53

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I'm a relatively new guy fiddling around with NLTK but I've experience in NLP with other platforms. I'm wondering what those u' characters that appear when I print lists from the samples.

>>> fdist1
FreqDist({u',': 18713, u'the': 13721, u'.': 6862,...

What are those u' characters for in each dictionary? Are those indicators of unicode or something?

asked Sep 13 '14 at 13:53

Francis

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They indicate you have Unicode strings. – Martijn Pieters Sep 13 '14 at 13:54
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https://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html#the-unicode-type – TidB Sep 13 '14 at 13:54

What are those u characters that appear when I use NLTK?

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