utely-positively-must-know-about-unicode-and-character-sets-no-excuses/">The
            Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character
            Sets</a></i> by Joel Spolsky, is highly recommended if you are just starting to work with UTF-8 and Unicode.
        </p>

        <h1>Exceptions</h1>
        <p>In general, your code should not simply swallow an exception. For example, this is bad form:</p>
        <pre class="tty">
    try:
        os.ren