def receiveMessage(self, user, multiparts, flags):
         print "\n< From: ", user.name
         print "< Message: ", multiparts[0][0].decode('cp1251')
         command = multiparts[0][0].lower().split(' ')

         if command[0] == 'hello':
            self.sendMessage(user.name, 'ur')
         else:
            self.sendMessage(user.name, 'shit')

>>> '\x00a\x00\r\x00\n'.decode('utf-16-be').strip() == 'a'
True
>>>