Python ASCII and UNICODE decode error
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Ok I got this very very frustrating error when inserting a certain string into my databse. It said something like: "Python cannot decode byte characters, expecting unicode" or something similar. After a lot of searching I saw that I could overcome this error by encoding my string into unicode. I try to do this by decoding the string first and then encoding it in utf-8 format. Like:

    string = string.encode("utf8")

And I get the following error:

    'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

Been dying with this error!! Any suggestions?
