Redirecting stdout causes "UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters..."

[lemmy]

'python exitwp.py' converts fine and successfully creates build/ output, but ' python exitwp.py > /dev/null' just fails with :

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "exitwp.py", line 353, in 
    data = parse_wp_xml(wpe)
  File "exitwp.py", line 164, in parse_wp_xml
    'items': parse_items(),
  File "exitwp.py", line 127, in parse_items
    body = gi('content:encoded')
  File "exitwp.py", line 120, in gi
    print result
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 11-12: ordinal not in range(128)

Commenting print result on line 120 in exitwp.py serves as a workaround here.