Replace non-ASCII characters with a single space

Question

I need to replace all non-ASCII (\\x00-\\x7F) characters with a space. I\'m surprised that this is not dead-easy in Python, unless I\'m missing something. The following func

Answer 1

For you the get the most alike representation of your original string I recommend the unidecode module:

from unidecode import unidecode
def remove_non_ascii(text):
    return unidecode(unicode(text, encoding = "utf-8"))

Then you can use it in a string:

remove_non_ascii("Ceñía")
Cenia