BeautifulSoup: Can't convert NavigableString to string

I tried to decode when I should have encoded:

str(child.encode('utf-8'))

You can do this:

unicode(tag.string)

For Python 3, the answer is merely str(tag.string)

Other answers will fail.

unicode() is not a built-in in Python 3.

tag.string.encode('utf-8') will convert the string to a byte string, which you don't want..

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