Python: convert string from UTF-8 to Latin-1

Question

I feel stacked here trying to change encodings with Python 2.5

I have XML response, which I encode to UTF-8: response.encode(\'utf-8\'). That is fine, but t

Answer 1

data="UTF-8 data"
udata=data.decode("utf-8")
data=udata.encode("latin-1","ignore")

Should do it.