Cange encoding to UTF-8 on Python

hae.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

import sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

laa = 'My Name'
broo = 'Laa BroÖntë'

laabroo = "laa= %s, broo= %s" % (str(laa), str(broo.decode('utf-8')))
print laabroo

# laa= My Name, broo= Laa BroÖntë