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From: Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se>
Subject: Re: Python 2 =?utf-8?B?4oCYcHJpbnTigJks?= coercing arguments to Unicode
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I think the thing you want to converse is your stringIO not your print.
I think you do this using six.stringIO
https://pythonhosted.org/six/

But I have only read the doc, not done this in practice.

Laura