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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def print_result(result):
 """Print the result, ascii encode if necessary"""

    try:
        print result
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        if sys.stdout.encoding:
            print result.encode(sys.stdout.encoding, 'replace')
        else:
            print result.encode('utf8')
    except:
        print "Unexpected error attempting to print result"