title: How do I get Cyrillic in the output, Python?
body: <p>how do I get Cyrillic instead of <code>u'...</code></p>
  
  <p>the code is like this </p>
  
  <pre><code>def openfile(filename):
      with codecs.open(filename, encoding="utf-8") as F:
          raw = F.read()
  do stuff...
  print some_text
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>prints </p>
  
  <p><code>&gt;&gt;&gt;[u'.', u',', u':', u'\u0432', u'&lt;', u'&gt;', u'(', u')', u'\u0437', u'\u0456']</code></p>