Convert a Unicode string to a string in Python (containing extra symbols)

Question

How do you convert a Unicode string (containing extra characters like £ $, etc.) into a Python string?

Answer 1

To convert a Unicode string to a string in Python we have many methods some of the important methods are as follows:-

We can import unicodedata module to convert a Unicode string in Python below is the code for the same:- 

title = u"@$&"

import unicodedata

unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', title).encode('ascii','ignore') 

If your string only contains the ASCII characters than you can use the str() function to convert them into a string:-

text=u”abcd”

str(text)