Problem with Python(Django) encoding?

Question

Django

Good afternoon guys.
There was an encoding problem in Django.
Here's the thing, the input function receives data from the mongodb database and should return this string, which will be displayed on the site page.
String in mongodb: "Stretch fabric piqué polo"
String returned by the function: "Stretch fabric piqu\xe9 polo"
Here's how to make the function return the first option, and not the second?
My failed attempts:

1. return u'%s' % str(value)
2. from django.utils.safestring import SafeUnicode
  return SafeUnicode(str(value))

Python: 2.7, django: 1.7, mongodb 2.6 Any help
would be greatly appreciated =)

Answer 1

u'%s' % str(value)
this is generally a strange expression, what do you want to do - unicode(value)?

>>> s = u'Stretch fabric piqué polo'
>>> s
u'Stretch fabric piqu\xe9 polo'
>>> print s
Stretch fabric piqué polo
>>>