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weird_new_yorker_url.py
>>> import urllib
>>> url = 'http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka%C2%80%C2%99s-tale'
>>> urllib.unquote(url)
'http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka\xc2\x80\xc2\x99s-tale'
>>> print _
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka€™s-tale
>>> urllib.unquote(url).decode('utf8')
u'http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka\x80\x99s-tale'
>>> print _
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/cooka€™s-tale
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