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

To remove non ASCII characters from text.

import string

text = [word for word in text if word not in string.ascii_letters]