I want to remove 'u' from every element in the list, can anybody help me?
[u'four', u'gag', u'prefix', u'woods']
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You might find [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1709110/what-does-u-mean-in-a-list) helpful – dashiell Aug 04 '16 at 17:58
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1The `u` just says that they are unicode strings. They behave like regular strings for the most part – inspectorG4dget Aug 04 '16 at 17:58
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is there any method through which i can remove them. – HIREN GALA Aug 04 '16 at 18:02
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Do you have any good reason to care about that `u`? – Julien Aug 04 '16 at 18:03
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u'Hello, World!' == 'Hello, World!', and same for the four examples in your list. – Julien Aug 04 '16 at 18:13
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The issue is with the encoding of strings. Do this :
l = [u'four', u'gag', u'prefix', u'woods']
l2 = [i.encode('UTF-8') for i in l]
print l2
['four', 'gag', 'prefix', 'woods']
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The u is an attribute that tells what type of string it is. If it was a byte string, this would be b. If you call type on these, they will return String. The difference between Unicode and something like ASCII is that Unicode is a super-set of ASCII that is the same for 0-127, but has more capability to represent different types of characters. These can be UTF-8 or UTF-32 or whatever, but generally are larger than one byte.
It should behave the same for 99% of the things that you want to do, but you can also change the encoding if you have a function that needs a very particular type of string.
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