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database = mongo_connect()
un = str(session['username'])

database.game.insert({'host': session['username'],
    'player_list':[un]})

If i do this, then when I retrieve player_list, I get a list of unicodes. How can I make it so that I get a list of strings? Thanks

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    Why would you want strs instead of unicodes? Commented Mar 16, 2013 at 18:28

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because mongodb stores data in bson format, and since bson is utf8-encoded, you'll get only unicode strings.

you can encode unicode into str anyway;

player_list = [x.encode('utf-8') for x in player_list]
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