How to replace accented characters in python?

Question

My output looks like \'àéêöhello!\'. I need change my output like this \'aeeohello\', Just replacing the character à as a like this.

Answer 1

import unidecode
somestring = "àéêöhello"

#convert plain text to utf-8
u = unicode(somestring, "utf-8")
#convert utf-8 to normal text
print unidecode.unidecode(u)

output

aeeohello