string.py 文件源码

def normalize(string):
    r"""
        Returns a new string withou non ASCII characters, trying to replace
        them with their ASCII closest counter parts when possible.
        :Example:
            >>> normalize(u"H\xe9ll\xf8 W\xc3\xb6rld")
            'Hell World'
        This version use unicodedata and provide limited yet
        useful results.
    """
    string = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', string).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
    return string.decode('ascii')