UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Question

I am building a web application using Flask and Google App Engine. One of the pages in this web application makes a call via YouTube APIs to get videos given a search term.

Answer 1

Figured it out.

I put the following at the start of my python file

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")