I'm sorry, I have misinterpreted your question.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:59:04PM -0400, bruce wrote:
> I've got a page from a web fetch. I'm simply trying to go from utf-8 to
> ascii.
Why would you do that? It's 2016, not 1953, and ASCII is well and truly
obsolete. (ASCII was even obsolete i
Hey folks. (peter!)
Thanks for the reply.
I wound up doing:
#s=s.replace('\u2013', '-')
#s=s.replace(u'\u2013', '-')
#s=s.replace(u"\u2013", "-")
#s=re.sub(u"\u2013", "-", s)
s=s.encode("ascii", "ignore")
s=s.replace(u"\u2013", "-")
s=s.replace("–", "-") ##<<< this was actually in
bruce wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Ive got a "basic" situation that should be simpl. So it must be a user
> (me) issue!
>
>
> I've got a page from a web fetch. I'm simply trying to go from utf-8 to
> ascii. I'm not worried about any cruft that might get stripped out as the
> data is generated from a us sit
On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:59:04PM -0400, bruce wrote:
> When I look at the input content, I have :
>
> u'English 120 Course Syllabus \u2013 Fall \u2013 2006'
>
> So, any pointers on replacing the \u2013 with a simple '-' (dash) (or I
> could even handle just a ' ' (space)
You misinterpret wha
Hi.
Ive got a "basic" situation that should be simpl. So it must be a user (me)
issue!
I've got a page from a web fetch. I'm simply trying to go from utf-8 to
ascii. I'm not worried about any cruft that might get stripped out as the
data is generated from a us site. (It's a college/class dataset
