Remove all characters from a string who's ordinals are out of range

Question

What is a good way to remove all characters that are out of the range: ordinal(128) from a string in python?

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Answer 1

new_safe_str = some_string.encode('ascii','ignore') 

I think would work

or you could do a list comprehension

"".join([ch for ch in orig_string if ord(ch)<= 128])

[edit] however as others have said it may be better to figure out how to deal with unicode in general... unless you really need it encoded as ascii for some reason