Printing Word & Chunk objects that contain Unicode

Hi! I'm working with texts containing Unicode in Python 2.7.9.

I noticed that using "print" on Word objects and Chunk objects seem to behave differently. In short, printing a Word object containing an Unicode character works, but printing a Chunk containing an Unicode character. For example:

Printing: sentence.string
The French for cake is gâteau .

Printing: sentence.words
Word(u'The/DT')
Word(u'French/NNP')
Word(u'for/IN')
Word(u'cake/NN')
Word(u'is/VBZ')
Word(u'g\xe2teau/NN')
Word(u'./.')

Printing: sentence.chunks
Chunk('The French/NP')
Chunk('for/PP')
Chunk('cake/NP-SBJ-1')
Chunk('is/VP-1')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
UnicodeEncodeError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-21-68762238b21e> in <module>()
     15 print "\nPrinting: sentence.chunks"
     16 for chunk in sentence.chunks:
---> 17     print chunk

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe2' in position 8: ordinal not in range(128)

Maybe using "print" isn't the best way to output Words and Chunks, but it's convenient when experimenting. Is there a reason why Word and Chunk don't behave consistently regarding Unicode?

Thanks :)

Start by reproducing the Word and Chunk printing examples in Python 2.7.9 and inspect how each object is converted for output. Done means printing a Chunk containing a Unicode character no longer raises UnicodeEncodeError and behaves consistently with Word.