Removal of Unicode (u) from a list

[sashi2keng]

Hi,

How can I remove unicode character(u) from a list output?
Example:
[[u'r118', u'BB']]
[[u'r119', u'BB']]

I want the output to be without "u". Example:

[['r118', 'BB']]
[['r119', 'BB']]

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Sashi.

[Glenton]

In [1]: a=u'r118'

In [2]: type(a)
Out[2]: <type 'unicode'>

In [3]: b=a.encode('ascii')

In [4]: b
Out[4]: 'r118'

In [5]: type(b)
Out[5]: <type 'str'>

Hope this helps.

[bvdet]

You can also type cast the str.

>>> s = [u'r118', u'BB']
>>> [str(item) for item in s]
['r118', 'BB']
>>>