Thanks, the suggestion
print name.decode("utf-8").strip()worked like a charm. When I did the print repr(name) I got exactly what you predicted. I'm not yet sure what all of this means, but I'm going to read this <http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html> in the hopes of finding out. Anyway thanks again for the help! cheers, Guillaume
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