Python2.7 print unicode string still getting UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character ... ordinal not in range(128)

Different terminals (and GUIs) allow different encodings. I don't have a recent ipython handy, but it is apparently able to handle the non-ASCII 0xe7 character ('ç') in your string. Your normal console, however, is using the 'ascii' encoding (mentioned by name in the exception), which can't display any bytes greater than 0x7f.

If you want to print non-ASCII strings to an ASCII console, you'll have to decide what to do with the characters it can't display. The str.encode method offers several options:

str.encode([encoding[, errors]])

errors may be given to set a different error handling scheme. The default for errors is 'strict', meaning that encoding errors raise a UnicodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 'backslashreplace' and any other name registered via codecs.register_error(), see section Codec Base Classes.

Here's an example that uses each of those four alternative error-handlers on your string (without the extra decoration added by TODO):

#!/usr/bin/env python2
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from __future__ import print_function

uni = u'api servisleri için input check decorator gerekiyor'
handlers = ['ignore', 'replace', 'xmlcharrefreplace', 'backslashreplace']
for handler in handlers:
    print(handler + ':')
    print(uni.encode('ascii', handler))
    print()

The output:

ignore:
api servisleri iin input check decorator gerekiyor

replace:
api servisleri i?in input check decorator gerekiyor

xmlcharrefreplace:
api servisleri için input check decorator gerekiyor

backslashreplace:
api servisleri i\xe7in input check decorator gerekiyor

Which one of those outputs comes closest to what you want is for you to decide.

For more information, see the Python 2 "Unicode HOWTO", and Ned Batchelder's "Pragmatic Unicode, or, How Do I Stop the Pain?", also available as a 36 minute video from PyCon US 2012.

Edit: ...or, as you seem to have discovered, your terminal can display Unicode just fine, but your default encoding is nevertheless set to 'ascii', which is more restrictive than it needs to be.

\xe7

One of the utf-8 character that represents small 'ç'. Python 2.7.9 probably encode with ASCII. You can run the code below in any version of Python that represents Python 2.7.9's behaviour.

import sys; 
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

def TODO(message):
    print(type(message))
    print(u'\n~*~ TODO ~*~ \n %s\n     ~*~\n' % message)

message = u'api servisleri için input check decorator gerekiyor'
encodedMessage = message.encode('ascii')

print(sys.stdout.encoding)
TODO(encodedMessage)

It will throw the exception

Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py", line 9, in encodedMessage = message.encode('ascii') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xe7' in position 16: ordinal not in range(128)

So, issue is related with interpreter's encoding rules. You can encode on your own or ignore.

Hope it will be useful

Apparently, print function is a bit different from the print statement.

https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/functions.html#print

All non-keyword arguments are converted to strings like 
str() does and written to the stream, separated by sep 
and followed by end. 

Simply, encoding the unicode string solved it

msg = u'\n~*~ TODO ~*~ \n %s\n     ~*~\n' % message
print(msg.encode("utf-8"))

Still, not sure why it works with 2.7.12, maybe a locale thing?