[Tutor] Unicode to Ascii

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 03:46:25AM +0530, srinivas devaki wrote:
> How can I convert Unicode to Ascii by stripping of any non ascii characters.
> 
> one way is to filter on s like
> 
> ascii = ''.join(filter(lambda x: 0 <= ord(x) < 256, unicode_string))
> 
> but are there any other simple ways ?

See also my reply to Bruce just now, but the easiest way is to encode to 
bytes, then back to text:

ascii = unicode_string.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')



-- 
Steve