Removing unicode \u2026 like characters in a string in python2.7 [duplicate]

Question

I have a string in python2.7 like this,

 This is some \u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\u2026! it\u0027s annoying!

How do i convert it to this,

This is some text that has to be cleaned! its annoying!

Recursion

Based on what do you want to filter the characters? Do you only want to preserve ASCII? – Incept

@root, yes I just want to preserve the ascii – Recursion

Answer 1

Python 2.x

>>> s
'This is some \\u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\\u2026! it\\u0027s annoying!'
>>> print(s.decode('unicode_escape').encode('ascii','ignore'))
This is some  text that has to be cleaned! it's annoying!

Python 3.x

>>> s = 'This is some \u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\u2026! it\u0027s annoying!'
>>> s.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
b"This is some  text that has to be cleaned! it's annoying!"

Sacha

That's just how its printed – Sacha

also curious why you wrote \` but not `, isn't `` outputs the same thing with your code ? – Altis

This also strips characters such as ü, ä, ö etc, which is not desired in most of the cases. – Garget

@BurhanKhalid, in your code is 's' a string? If yes, then do i need to import some package to get decode and encode helper methods? – Craw

When i tried your code on my string, i get an exception which says 'str' object has not attribute 'decode'. I am using Python 3.6.6 version – Craw

Please read this and this. – Sacha

This isn't working for me...The string is exactly the same. – Towardly