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?
>

You actually asked TWO different questions, and have got answers
mainly to the first one. Here's a very simple answer to the second
question, which has the advantage of no loss of information:

repr(your_utf8_string.decode('utf8'))
or merely
repr(your_utf8_string)

Cheers,
John