Utf-8 String As Key In Dictionary Causes Keyerror

I have a dictionary with unicode strings as keys. When I try to access the value I get key error, even though the printout of the key in dictionary and my key are equal: >>&g

Solution 1:

Your test is a string while key is a unicode string. See the u in-front of it?

You should either use Python 3, where all strings are unicode strings, or make sure to convert test to unicode before looking for it in the dictionary.