Easy way to convert a unicode list to a list containing python strings?

Question

Template of the list is:

EmployeeList =  [u\'\', u\'\', u\'\', u\'\']

I would like to con

Answer 1

[str(x) for x in EmployeeList] would do a conversion, but it would fail if the unicode string characters do not lie in the ascii range.

>>> EmployeeList = [u'1001', u'Karick', u'14-12-2020', u'1$']
>>> [str(x) for x in EmployeeList]
['1001', 'Karick', '14-12-2020', '1$']


>>> EmployeeList = [u'1001', u'करिक', u'14-12-2020', u'1$']
>>> [str(x) for x in EmployeeList]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128)