TypeError: descriptor 'replace' requires a 'str' object but received a 'unicode'

[Jaap van Wingerde]

# -*- coding: utf_8 -*-
Omschrijving = u'priv? assuranti?n' # string from a bank.csv
Omschrijving = str.replace(Omschrijving, "priv?", 'privé')
Omschrijving = str.replace(Omschrijving, "Assuranti?n", 'Assurantiën')
print Omschrijving

When I run this script I get the following message.

"Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/jaap/Desktop/unicode.py", line 3, in <module>
     Omschrijving = str.replace(Omschrijving, "priv?", 'priv�')
TypeError: descriptor 'replace' requires a 'str' object but received a 
'unicode'"

How can I solve this?




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