[Tutor] Unicode to string

[Isr Gish]

I'm having problems with printing a uicode string. I'm getting an error.
TypeError: Write() argument 1 must be string without null bytes, not unicode

So I was trying to convert the unicode object to a string.
This is what I'm doing.
>>> uni = u'\\\x00M\x00y\x00 \x00D\x00o\x00c\x00u\x00m\x00e\x00n\x00t\x00s\x00\\\x00P\x00o\x00c\x00k\x00e\x00t\x00C\x00\\\x00T\x00r\x00i\x00a\x00l\x00s\x00.\x00a\x00p\x00p\x00\x00'
>>> tmp = uni.encode('mbcs')
>>> tmp = tmp.decode('utf-16', 'ignore')

Only then can I print "tmp".

All this seems to be a big mess I'm sure there must be some better way.

Any help would be aprreciated.
Isr