I have a tree structure in which keywords may contain some latin characters. I have a function which loops through all leaves of the tree and adds each keyword to a list under certain conditions.

Here is the code I have for adding these keywords to the list:

```
print "Adding: " + self.keyword
leaf_list.append(self.keyword)
print leaf_list

```

If the keyword in this case is `université`, then my output is:

```
Adding: université
['universit\xc3\xa9']

```

It appears that the print function properly shows the latin character, but when I add it to the list, it gets decoded.

How can I change this? I need to be able to print the list with the standard latin characters, not the decoded version of them.