title: URL component % and \x
body: <p>I have a doubt.</p>
  
  <pre><code>st = "b%C3%BCrokommunikation"
  urllib2.unquote(st)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OUTPUT: 'b\xc3\xbcrokommunikation'
  But, if I print it: </p>
  
  <pre><code>print urllib2.unquote(st)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OUTPUT: bürokommunikation</p>
  
  <p>Why is the difference?
  I have to write bürokommunikation instead of 'b\xc3\xbcrokommunikation' into a file.</p>
  
  <p>My problem is:
  I have lots of data with such values extracted from URLs. I have to store them as eg. bürokommunikation into a text file.</p>