How to check Unicode char in python

Question

def order_check_uni(body):  
    ccnt=0  
    for x in body:    
        if x.isUpper():  
            ccnt+=1  
        if ccnt>2:  
            print 'success'   

Answer 1

for x in body:
    if ord(x) > 127:
        # character is *not* ASCII

Answer 2

Not Sure, whats your exact requirement is

>>> u'aあä'.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
'a'

I Found this at Python: Convert Unicode to ASCII without errors

Answer 3

you can chech if a string is unicode by using the method isinstance()

s = u'aあä'
if isinstance(s, unicode):
  do_something()