How to remove "" from a string in python?

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I'm trying to extract data from facebook but while scraping, I'm stuck at the unicode type error. Actually the text which I'm trying to scrape contains information like:

Hi, this is text

The code which throws an exception of unicodeEncodeError is something like:

driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//p').text

Any hint to overcome this issue.

You have the option to ignore any non-ascii character while you scrap; — Lodi, Jul 20 '18 at 16:13

S. Dave · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-20T16:42:08.120

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This question is similar to this one: Selenium webdriver and unicode

They recommend converting the whole page to ascii using:

(driver.page_source).encode('ascii', 'ignore')

You can also encode it to utf-8:

(driver.page_source).encode('utf-8')

edited Jul 20 '18 at 16:42

answered Jul 20 '18 at 16:16

S. Dave

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 25 '18 at 16:59

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Add (driver.page_source).encode('ascii', 'ignore'). That's all you have to do.

edited Jul 25 '18 at 16:59

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answered Jul 20 '18 at 16:54

JorgeLuis009

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Just wondering why people are repeating other peoples' answers. The accepted answer contains the part other answers have written, and it also does not seem to edit to include the same. – Dhruv Singhal Jul 25 '18 at 17:05

How to remove "" from a string in python?

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