Send a non-ASCII POST request in Python?

Question

I'm trying to send a POST request to a web app. I'm using the mechanize module (itself a wrapper of urllib2). Anyway, when I try to send a POST request, I get UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128). I tried putting the unicode(string), the unicode(string, encoding="utf-8"), unicode(string).encode() etc, nothing worked - either returned the error above, or the TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

I looked at the other SO answers to similar questions, but none helped.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Example that produces an error:

prda = "šđćč" #valid UTF-8 characters
prda # typing in python shell 
'\xc5\xa1\xc4\x91\xc4\x87\xc4\x8d'
print prda # in shell
šđćč
prda.encode("utf-8") #in shell
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
unicode(prda)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Answer 1

I assume you're using Python 2.x.

Given a unicode object:

myUnicode = u'\u4f60\u597d'

encode it using utf-8:

mystr = myUnicode.encode('utf-8')

Note that you need to specify the encoding explicitly. By default it'll (usually) use ascii.