<human>:  How do I convert a unicode to a string at the Python level?
<bot>: Here is some code to format a string `u'Andr\xc3\xa9'` that has unicode characters

"""""".join(chr(ord(c)) for c in 'Andr\xc3\xa9')

#Warning: this code generation is experimental. Please inspect the code for any bugs before executing.