Suppression d'unicode \ u2026 comme des caractères dans une chaîne en python2.7

Question

J'ai une chaîne en python2.7 comme ça,

 This is some \u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\u2026! it\u0027s annoying!

Comment puis-je le convertir en cela,

This is some text that has to be cleaned! its annoying!

Answer 1

Python 2.x

>>> s
'This is some \\u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\\u2026! it\\u0027s annoying!'
>>> print(s.decode('unicode_escape').encode('ascii','ignore'))
This is some  text that has to be cleaned! it's annoying!

Python 3.x

>>> s = 'This is some \u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\u2026! it\u0027s annoying!'
>>> s.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
b"This is some  text that has to be cleaned! it's annoying!"