Help me with a bytes decoding problem in python 3

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:47 AM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> \xe2\x86\xb3

This is the UTF-8 encoded form of U+21B3, which is the DOWNWARDS ARROW
WITH TIP RIGHTWARDS character that you're showing. That's what the
"bytecode" you're seeing is. You may be able to ask the underlying
program to make its output in a cleaner format - try looking for a
--porcelain option or similar - but as I see it, everything in Python
is doing what it ought to do.

Or am I misunderstanding your question?

ChrisA