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Converting list of strings with u'...' to a list of normal strings

I'm a newbie in python. And apologies for a very basic question.

I'm working with python pattern.en library and try to get the synonyms of a word. this is my code and is working fine.

from pattern.en import wordnet
a=wordnet.synsets('human')
print a[0].synonyms

this what the output i get from this:

[u'homo', u'man', u'human being', u'human']

but for my program i need to insert this array as this:

['homo', 'man', 'human being', 'human']

how do i get an output as above and remove the 'u' from my output.

thanks in advance..!

Solution

  • Try proper encoding- But care this u does not have any effect on data- it is just an explicit representation of unicode object (not byte array), if your code needs back unicode then better to feed it unicode.

    >>>d =  [u'homo', u'man', u'human being', u'human']
>>>print [i.encode('utf-8') for i in d]
>>>['homo', 'man', 'human being', 'human']