How to Fix UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xeb’

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
laa = 'My Name'
broo = 'Laa BroÖntë'
laabroo = "laa= %s, broo= %s" % (str(laa), str(broo.decode('utf-8')))
print laabroo
# laa= My Name, broo= Laa BroÖntë
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