How to replace unicode characters in string with something else python

Question

I have a string that I got from reading a HTML webpage with bullets that have a symbol like       because of the bulleted list  Note that the text is an HTML source from a webpage using Python 2 7 s urllib2 read webaddress    I know the unicode character for the bullet character as U 2022  but how do I actually replace that unicode character with something else   I tried doing str replace         something    but it does not appear to work    how do I do this

User · Accepted Answer

Decode the string to Unicode  Assuming it s UTF-8-encoded   str decode  utf-8    Call the replace method and be sure to pass it a Unicode string as its first argument   str decode  utf-8   replace u  u2022         Encode back to UTF-8  if needed   str decode  utf-8   replace u  u2022        encode  utf-8       Fortunately  Python 3 puts a stop to this mess  Step 3 should really only be performed just prior to I O  Also  mind you that calling a string str shadows the built-in type str

User · Answer

Funny the answer is hidden in among the answers   str replace         something      would work if you use the right semantics   str replace u  u2022   something      works wonders      thnx to RParadox for the hint

User · Answer

Encode string as unicode    gt  gt  gt  special   u  u2022   gt  gt  gt  abc   u ABC   def   gt  gt  gt  abc replace special  X   u ABCXdef

User · Answer

import re regex   re compile  u 2022   re UNICODE  newstring   re sub regex  something  yourstring   lt optional flags gt

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