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I am using BeautifulSoup to scrape data. The text I want to scrape is "€ 48,50", which contains an ascii character. However, I would like to replace the euro sign with nothing so that the final output is "48,50". I have been getting errors because the console cannot print it. I am using python 2.7 on Windows for this. I will appreciate a solution.

I was basically getting errors and do not know how to go about this. Or is there a way I can just extract non-ascii characters alone?

w= item.find_all("div",{"class":"product-price"}).find("strong", {"class":"product-price__money"}).text.replace("\\u20ac"," ") print w
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You need to decode the string and pass the replace function a unicode string.

text = "€ 48,50" w = text.decode("utf-8").replace(u"\u20ac"," ") print w

See How to replace unicode characters in string with something else python? for more details.

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Yes, this is the solution I ended up using at the time. I needed to decode the character

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