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[Skip Montanaro]

    >>> "öäb" == u"abc"
    ...
    UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

    Lulu> So the next obvious question:  WHY is this error raised?!

Python is trying to coerce the ASCII string on the left to be the same type
as the Unicode string on the right.  It fails because the first two
characters have ordinal values greater than 127.

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