How to remove this \xa0 from a string in python?

Question

I have the following string:

 word = u\'Buffalo,\\xa0IL\\xa060625\'

I don\'t want the \"\\xa0\" in there. How can I get rid of it? The st

Answer 1

There is no \xa there. If you try to put that into a string literal, you're going to get a syntax error if you're lucky, or it's going to swallow up the next attempted character if you're not, because \x sequences aways have to be followed by two hexadecimal digits.

What you have is \xa0, which is an escape sequence for the character U+00A0, aka "NO-BREAK SPACE".

I think you want to replace them with spaces, but whatever you want to do is pretty easy to write:

word.replace(u'\xa0', u' ') # replaced with space
word.replace(u'\xa0', u'0') # closest to what you were literally asking for
word.replace(u'\xa0', u'')  # removed completely