python2.7 Run appears Warning:UnicodeWarning:Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to unicode-interpreting them as being unequal

The following error occurred while running

Uncode encoding Warning: In the Unicode equivalence comparison, the conversion of two parameters to Unicode encoding fails. Interrupted and thought they were not equal.

strings under Windows str default encoding is ASCII, while Python encoding is UTF8

Workaround: Add the following lines of code

Import sys    reload (SYS)  sys.setdefaultencoding ('UTF8')  

python2.7 Run appears Warning:UnicodeWarning:Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to unicode-interpreting them as being unequal