How to replace unicode characters in string with something else python?

Question

I have a string that I got from reading a HTML webpage with bullets that have a symbol like \"•\" because of the bulleted list. Note that the text is an HTML source from a w

Answer 1

Encode string as unicode.

>>> special = u"\u2022"
>>> abc = u'ABC•def'
>>> abc.replace(special,'X')
u'ABCXdef'