python remove accents from string code example

Example 1: python remove accents

def simplify(text):
	import unicodedata
	try:
		text = unicode(text, 'utf-8')
	except NameError:
		pass
	text = unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode("utf-8")
	return str(text)

Example 2: unicodedata no accent

import unicodedata
def strip_accents(s):
   return ''.join(c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', s)
                  if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn')