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

There are several ways to do this. I converted like this

def clean(s):
    s = s.replace("u'","")
    return re.sub("[\[\]\'\s]", '', s)

EmployeeList = [clean(i) for i in str(EmployeeList).split(',')]

After that you can check

if '1001' in EmployeeList:
    #do something

Hope it will help you.