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