Jay Parlar wrote:
>
>... Is there a simple way to convert the unicode text to
> StringType, removing the resulting unicode strings for unrepresentable > characters?
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.ascii_encode(u"foo\u3333bar", "ignore")
('foobar', 7)
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