safe_print.py

#modified version off http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576602-safe-print/

def sprint(*args, **kwargs):
    """Safely print the given string.

    If you want to see the code points for unprintable characters then you
    can use `errors="xmlcharrefreplace"`.
    """

    errors = kwargs.get('errors', 'replace')
    for s in args:
        s = s.encode(sys.stdout.encoding or "utf-8", errors)
        print(s)