UnicodeEncodeError in AST Generation

[sumitsuthar]

Unable to parse following code snippet
utf8_text = u'\xc1rv\xedzt\xfbr\xf5t\xfck\xf6rf\xfar\xf3g\xe9'
Found following exception:
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 39, in ast2json to_return[attr] = get_value(getattr(node, attr)) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 59, in get_value return [get_value(x) for x in attr_value] File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 61, in get_value return ast2json(attr_value) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 39, in ast2json to_return[attr] = get_value(getattr(node, attr)) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 59, in get_value return [get_value(x) for x in attr_value] File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 61, in get_value return ast2json(attr_value) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 39, in ast2json to_return[attr] = get_value(getattr(node, attr)) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 59, in get_value return [get_value(x) for x in attr_value] File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 61, in get_value return ast2json(attr_value) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 39, in ast2json to_return[attr] = get_value(getattr(node, attr)) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 61, in get_value return ast2json(attr_value) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 39, in ast2json to_return[attr] = get_value(getattr(node, attr)) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/ast2json.py", line 55, in get_value return decode_str(attr_value) File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ast2json/py2/__init__.py", line 12, in decode_str return codecs.getencoder('hex_codec')(value)[0].decode('utf-8') File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/encodings/hex_codec.py", line 24, in hex_encode output = binascii.b2a_hex(input) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc1' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)