ascii problem

[Mauricio Inforçati]

Hi, 
How can I use portuguese characters on my scripts or on shell?
When I use it, this occurs

>>> a = "andré"
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

  Mauricio Inforçati

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