How to remove accent in Python 3.5 and get a string with unicodedata or other solutions?

Question

I am trying to get a string to use in google geocoding api.I ve checked a lot of threads but I am still facing problem and I don\'t understand how to solve it.

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Answer 1

Generally, there are two approaches: (1) regular expressions and (2) str.translate.

1) regular expressions

Decompose string and replace characters from the Unicode block \u0300-\u036f:

import unicodedata
import re
word = unicodedata.normalize("NFD", word)
word = re.sub("[\u0300-\u036f]", "", word)

It removes accents, circumflex, diaeresis, and so on:

pingüino > pinguino
εἴκοσι εἶσι > εικοσι εισι

For some languages, it could be another block, such as [\u0559-\u055f] for Armenian script.

2) str.translate

First, create replacement table (case-sensitive) and then apply it.

repl = str.maketrans(
    "áéúíó",
    "aeuio"
)
word.translate(repl)

Multi-char replacements are made as following:

repl = {
    ord("æ"): "ae",
    ord("œ"): "oe",
}
word.translate(repl)