[Tutor] pythonic ascii decoding!

[eryk sun]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:39 PM, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So, is there a quick/dirty approach I can use to simply strip out the
> "non-ascii" chars. I know, this might not be the "best/pythonic" way,
> and that it might result in loss of some data/chars, but I can live
> with it for now.

Ignore or replace the non-ASCII characters. For example:

    >>> print 's\xffp\xffa\xffm'.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
    spam
    >>> print 's\xffp\xffa\xffm'.decode('ascii', 'replace')
    s�p�a�m