[issue15276] unicode format does not really work in Python 2.x

[Petr Dlouhý]

Petr Dlouhý added the comment:

For anyone stuck on Python 2.x, here is an workaround (maybe it could find it's way to documentation also):

  def fix_grouping(bytestring):
      try:
          return unicode(bytestring)
      except UnicodeDecodeError:
          return bytestring.decode("utf-8")

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