remove unicode character from string pyhton code example

Example 1: remove unicode from string python

.encode("ascii", "ignore")

Example 2: strip unicode characters from strings python

def strip_non_ascii(string):
    ''' Returns the string without non ASCII characters'''
    stripped = (c for c in string if 0 < ord(c) < 127)
    return ''.join(stripped)


test = u'éáé123456tgreáé@€'
print test
print strip_non_ascii(test)