Python - 'ascii' codec can't decode byte

Question

I\'m using Python 2.6 and Jinja2 to create HTML reports. I provide the template with many results and the template loops through them and creates HTML tables

When callin

Answer 1

Simple strings may contain UTF-8 character bytes but they are not of type unicode. This can be fixed by "decode" which converts str to unicode. Works in Python 2.5.5.

my_string_variable.decode("utf8")