http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6289474/working-with-utf-8-encoding-in-python-source
In source header you can declare:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
....
It is described in the PEP 0263:
Then you can use UTF-8 in strings:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
u = 'idzie wąż wąską dróżką'
uu = u.decode('utf8')
s = uu.encode('cp1250')
print(s)