Python String: Remove Non-ASCII Characters From String

In this tutorial, we will use an example to show you how to remove non-ascii characters from python string.

It is similar to remove unicode characters in python string.

1.Prepare a python string that contains non-ascii characters

string_nonASCII = " àa fuünny charactersß. "

2.Remove non-ascii characters using string..encode()

string_encode = string_nonASCII.encode("ascii", "ignore")
string_decode = string_encode.decode()
print(string_decode)

Run this code, you will see this ascii characters:

a funny characters

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