I am having a problem with my encoding in Python. I have tried different methods but I can't seem to find the best way to encode my output to UTF-8.

This is what I am trying to do:

result = unicode(google.searchGoogle(param), "utf-8").encode("utf-8")

searchGoogle returns the first Google result for param.

This is the error I get:

exceptions.TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

Does anyone know how I can make Python encode my output in UTF-8 to avoid this error?

python encoding utf-8 character-encoding
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