> I really miss a "just give me an ascii version and ignore any errors, because I really don't care in this case" option... You can use options to either ignor

> I really miss a "just give me an ascii version and ignore any errors, because I really don't care in this case" option... You can use options to either ignore or replace invalid characters. >>> unicode('\x80abc', errors='strict') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> unicode('\x80abc', errors='replace') u'\ufffdabc' >>> unicode('\x80abc', errors='ignore') u'abc'