Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a string

[John Machin]

On Dec 31, 7:20 pm, "silverburgh.me... at gmail.com"
<silverburgh.me... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a
> string?
> Let say I have a string in python (which is utf8 encoded), is there a
> python function which I can convert that to a string which composed of
> only ascii characters?
>

OK, I'll bite: why do you want to throw data away?