I am using a simple python script to get reservation results for my CID : simple.py:

data = {"minorRev":"current minorRev #","cid":"xxx","apiKey":"xxx","customerIpAddress":"  ","creationDateStart":"03/31/2013","}

url = 'http://someservice/services/rs/'                      
req = requests.get(url,params=data)                        
print req                                                                 
print req.text                                                                
print req.status_code

Now on the command prompt if I do python simple.py it runs perfectly and prints the req.text variable

However when I try to do 

python simple.py | grep pattern

I get 

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe4' in position 1314: ordinal not in range(128)
python grep python-requests
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