def unicode_test():
byte_string = '\xc3\xb4'
unicode_string = unicode(byte_string, "utf-8")
print "unicode object type: {}".format(type(unicode_string))
output_string = u"printed unicode object: {}".format(unicode_string)
print output_string
if __name__ == '__main__':
unicode_test()
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