Problem with UTF-8 candidate names

[yannis1962]

I wrote a small program using schulze.compute_ranks, taking care of the header (-*- coding: utf-8 -*-) and writing into the output file using codecs.open("resultat.txt","w","utf-8"). I attach this file. In the output file, instead of UTF-8 data I get explicit bytes (as in u'r\xc3\xa9flexion/n:pens\xc3\xa9e/n' instead of u'réflexion/n:pensée/n'). Can this be fixed? Thanks in advance

compare-rankings.py.pdf
resultat.txt