Strange UnicodeEncodeError in Windows image on Azure DevOps and Github

[12Jessicasmith34]

      >  If stdout isn't a console (e.g. a pipe), it defaults to using the 
process code page (i.e. CP_ACP), such as legacy code page 1252
 
(extended Latin-1).
 

 
First off, really helpful information, thank you. That was the exact background I was missing.
 

 
Two questions: any idea why this would be happening in this situation? AFAIK, stdout *is* a console when these images are running the python process. Second - is there a way I can check the locale and code page values that you mentioned? I assume I could call GetACP using ctypes, but maybe there is a simpler way?