latin-1 to ascii

Question

I have a unicode string with accented latin chars e.g.

n=unicode(\'Wikipédia, le projet d’encyclopédie\',\'utf-8\')

I want to convert it to

Answer 1

The awesome unidecode module does this for you:

>>> import unidecode
>>> n = unicode('Wikipédia, le projet d’encyclopédie','utf-8')
>>> unidecode.unidecode(n)
"Wikipedia, le projet d'encyclopedie"