Printing accented characters in Python 2.7

Question

I\'m new to python. I\'m trying to print accented characters, like this:

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    print \'éàÇÃãéèï\'

But when I exec

Answer 1

As Wooble mentioned, if you change

print 'éàÇÃãéèï'

to

print u'éàÇÃãéèï'

It should work.

Here is a good intro to unicode in python (both for 2.x and 3): The updated guide to unicode