What does 'u' mean in a list?

Question

This is the first time I\'ve came across this. Just printed a list and each element seems to have a u in front of it i.e.

[u\'hello\', u         


        

Answer 1

it's an indication of unicode string. similar to r'' for raw string.

>>> type(u'abc')

>>> r'ab\c'
'ab\\c'