This was a presentation for PyCon 2008 on how to understand Unicode in Python. It was mostly focused on Python 2 but the concepts still apply in Python 3, especially if you just want to understand dealing with byte code inputs.

View the slides: http://kumar303.github.io/unicode-in-python/

The source is in the public domain under the WTFPL license. It is free to re-use / re-write or anything you want.

To build the slides, create a virtualenv, edit unicode.txt, and run:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python build.py