Can’t open Unicode URL with Python

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This works for me: 

#!/usr/bin/env python
# define source file encoding, see: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib
url = u'http://example.com/índice.html'
content = urllib.urlopen(url.encode("UTF-8")).read()

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