If it's not ascii, you would just do: getattr(thing, u'attribute_with_unicode_characters') This would work in both python 2.7 and 3.9 (probably works with oth

If it's not ascii, you would just do: getattr(thing, u'attribute_with_unicode_characters') This would work in both python 2.7 and 3.9 (probably works with other 3.X versions but it's the one I actually tried).