For example, the emoji🌍 has a Unicode code point of 127757, and its UTF-8 encoding involves multiple bytes (240 in this case). This project is a basic demonstration of working with Unicode and UTF-8 ...

In Python 3, bytes contains sequences of 8-bit values, str contains # sequences of Unicode characters. bytes and str instances can't be # used together with operators (like > or +).

A Unicode string is just like a regular Python string, except it uses characters, rather than bytes. Indeed, Python 2's Unicode strings are just like Python 3's default strings.