Cyrillic encoding python 2.7 array

This is happening because when we print out a list or tuple, the representation of the elements within the list is defined by the element's __repr__ function, rather than its __str__ function. To fix this, you can use the following to encode the strings and then decode the repr() of the list.

Code:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
data = [(u'Rest', u'русский', u'фввв', u'vc'), (u'Rest', u'русский', u'фввв ', u'vc')]
print repr([tuple(x.encode(sys.stdout.encoding) for x in sl) for sl in data]).decode('string-escape')

Out:

[('Rest', 'русский', 'фввв', 'vc'), ('Rest', 'русский', 'фввв ', 'vc')]