Python 2.7.5 (default, Oct 30 2018, 23:45:53)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-36)] on linux2
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>>> str("你好")
'\xe4\xbd\xa0\xe5\xa5\xbd'
>>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>> str("你好")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>