Python - converting wide-char strings from a binary file to Python unicode strings...

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It's been a long day and I'm a bit stumped.

I'm reading a binary file that contains lots of wide-char strings and I want to dump these out as Python unicode strings. (To unpack the non-string data I'm using the struct module, but I don't how to do the same with the strings.)

For example, reading the word "Series":

myfile = open("test.lei", "rb")
myfile.seek(44)
data = myfile.read(12)

# data is now 'S\x00e\x00r\x00i\x00e\x00s\x00'

How can I encode that raw wide-char data as a Python string?

Edit: I'm using Python 2.6

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