How to remove nonAscii characters in python

Question

This is my code:

#!C:/Python27/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2
import sys
import urlparse
import          


        

Answer 1

Try to normalize the string and then ASCII encode it ignoring errors.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from unicodedata import normalize

string = 'úäô§'

if isinstance(string, str):
    string = string.decode('utf-8')

print normalize('NFKD', string).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
>>> uao