Decode PowerShell output possibly containing non-ASCII Unicode characters into a Python string

Question

I need to decode PowerShell stdout called from Python into a Python string.

My ultimate goal is to get in a form of a list of strings the names of network adapters o

Answer 1

It's a Python 2 bug already marked as wontfix: https://bugs.python.org/issue19264

I must use Python 3 if you want to make it work under Windows.