How to convert a list of tuples to unicode?

Question

Python

There is a list of tuples lettre = (("word1", number_of_text), ("word2", number_of_text), ("word3", number_of_text) ... )

txtout = u"Самое часто встречающееся слово в тексте: " + unicode(lettre[0][0], "UTF-8")

This line gives an error "TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported"
How to get out of the situation?

Answer 1

Judging by the error, lettre[0][0] is already in unicode.