python - Replace special characters with ASCII equivalent

Question

Is there any lib that can replace special characters to ASCII equivalents, like:

"Cze??"

to:

"Czesc"

I can of course create map:

{'?':'s', '?': 'c'}

and use some replace function. But I don't want to hardcode all equivalents into my program, if there is some function that already does that.

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import unicodedata
text = u'Cze??'
print unicodedata.normalize('NFD', text).encode('ascii', 'ignore')