'u' In Lists

[jbravado]

I was wondering if anyone knew what was up with the returned 'u' I find in my lists sometimes. For instance, querying something like all the textures in a scene...

fileNodes = mc.ls(type=['file', 'psdFileTex', 'mentalrayTexture'])

the returned list contains these strange 'u's...

[u'file3', u'file4', u'file5']

Anyone know why these happen?

Thanks

[joojaa]

they are unicode strings