How to replace a (ring) for a in Python?

Question

I have a list with some thousands strings. Some strings have & that should be replaced by and some strings have % that should be replaced for and so on. There are many rules.

There are some strings with this special character a(ring) that should be replaced by a lower case.

I am using the follow code:

brnd = 'Acne Studios Blå Konst'
print(brnd.lower().replace(' ','-').replace('.','').replace('%','').replace('\134','a'))

returns acne-studios-blå-konst
desired acne-studios-bla-konst

The a(ring) is still there. What am I missing here? Python 2.7.12

If I use directly I get SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file ... — IgorAlves, May 25 '18 at 02:50
You should probably do that if you intend to use unicode strings in Python 2. — jhpratt, May 25 '18 at 02:52
@zwitterion do you want to remove replace all accented characters? — Olivier Melançon, May 25 '18 at 02:54
Now I am using # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- at the begging of the page... and is not working — IgorAlves, May 25 '18 at 02:54
The script already has `brnd = 'Acne Studios Blå Konst'`. I don't see how `replace('å', 'a')` could cause problems. — John Gordon, May 25 '18 at 02:55
@zwitterion also, if you are having problem with unicode vs ascii, definitely switch to Python3, everything has been harmonized — Olivier Melançon, May 25 '18 at 02:56
[latin small letter a with ring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85#On_computers) - looks like that character is 229 decimal. — wwii, May 26 '18 at 14:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '18 at 04:46

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Try using the unicodedata module.

Demo:

import unicodedata
brnd = 'Acne Studios Blå Konst'
print unicodedata.normalize('NFD', unicode(brnd, 'utf-8')).encode('ascii', 'ignore').lower().replace(' ','-')

Output:

acne-studios-bla-konst

answered May 25 '18 at 04:46

Rakesh

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Hy Rakesh this what I am getting after copy your code: `SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc3' in file /home/ila/vhosts/crawler/bucky.py on line 6`. Line 6 is where a have the sentence `Acne Studios ...` – IgorAlves May 25 '18 at 13:27

How to replace a (ring) for a in Python?

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