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

how about:

def fix_unicode(data):
    if isinstance(data, unicode):
        return data.encode('utf-8')
    elif isinstance(data, dict):
        data = dict((fix_unicode(k), fix_unicode(data[k])) for k in data)
    elif isinstance(data, list):
        for i in xrange(0, len(data)):
            data[i] = fix_unicode(data[i])
    return data