How to use unicode in python2.7?

Question

Python

Hello. Always used python3 (normal work with unicode is just one of the reasons).
Now I want to use the sccrapy library, but it is only for the 2nd branch.
I figured out the library itself more or less, but since I need to parse the site with Cyrillic, I get this

>>>s
u'\u043d\u0430'
>>>s.encode('utf-8')
'\xd0\xbd\xd0\xb0'

Take a closer look, the site says:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1251" />

But

>>>s.encode('windows-1251')
'\xed\xe0'

Accordingly, it did not help either.
Actually where to dig, how to deal with it?

Answer 1

u'\u043d\u0430' is the Unicode representation of the string (everything that starts with u'')
The encode method allows you to encode Unicode into the encoding we need, for example, to write to a file, etc.
At one time, this article helped a lot: habrahabr.ru/post/135913