Error "UnicodeDecodeError" when starting the server, what could be the reason for this?

Question

Django

I encountered the following problem: when executing the python manage.py shell and python manage.py runserver commands, I

get
the following error

Answer 1

import os

os.path.join('/home', 'myname', 'dirname', u'поддирректория')

and none path += "ололо"
and start to understand what they wrote to you in the trace

Answer 2

I can be wrong, but most likely we are talking about Cyrillic in the project files. To solve the problem, you need to place the following construction at the beginning of the file: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-