Delete every non utf-8 symbols from string

Question

I have a big amount of files and parser. What I Have to do is strip all non utf-8 symbols and put data in mongodb. Currently I have code like this.

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Answer 1

For python 3, as mentioned in a comment in this thread, you can do:

line = bytes(line, 'utf-8').decode('utf-8', 'ignore')

The 'ignore' parameter prevents an error from being raised if any characters are unable to be decoded.

If your line is already a bytes object (e.g. b'my string') then you just need to decode it with decode('utf-8', 'ignore').