How to remove \xa0 in unicode from a list

Question

I hope to remove \xao in the word of python list. Each word is a unicode type.

I have used replace method to get rid of \xa0, but it does not work.

list = [u'apple\xa0', u'banana']

list = [el.replace('\xa0',' ') for el in list]

print list

The expected res is:

list = [u'apple', u'banana']

The actual res is:

 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

Possible duplicate of [How to replace unicode characters in string with something else python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13093727/how-to-replace-unicode-characters-in-string-with-something-else-python) — Nouman, Sep 17 '19 at 01:43
BTW, if you are wanting to _remove_ the character instead of _replacing it with a space_, you will want to make the second argument of the replace `''`. — whydoubt, Sep 17 '19 at 01:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '19 at 01:35

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You are missing the u at the beginning of your string:

[el.replace(u'\xa0',' ') for el in list]

I would also avoid using list since it is a built-in function in Python.

answered Sep 17 '19 at 01:35

lmiguelvargasf

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