How to use unicode inside an xpath string? (UnicodeEncodeError)

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Published on 2010-06-12T19:36:35Z Indexed on 2010/06/12 19:42 UTC
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I'm using xpath in Selenium RC via the Python api.

I need to click an a element who's text is "Submit »"

Here's the error that I'm getting:

In [18]: sel.click(u"xpath=//a[text()='Submit \xbb')]")
ERROR: An unexpected error occurred while tokenizing input
The following traceback may be corrupted or invalid
The error message is: ('EOF in multi-line statement', (1121, 0))

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Exception                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/me/<ipython console> in <module>()

/Users/me/selenium.pyc in click(self, locator)
    282         'locator' is an element locator
    283         """
--> 284         self.do_command("click", [locator,])
    285 
    286 

/Users/me/selenium.pyc in do_command(self, verb, args)
    213         #print "Selenium Result: " + repr(data) + "\n\n"

    214         if (not data.startswith('OK')):
--> 215             raise Exception, data
    216         return data
    217 

<type 'str'>: (<type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>, UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u"ERROR: Invalid xpath [2]: //a[text()='Submit \xbb')]", 45, 46, 'ordinal not in range(128)'))

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