Remove unicode characters

Question

I want to remove the pound sign ( £ ) from a csv file

f = open('menu.csv')
    content = f.read()
    content.decode("utf-8")
    print content
    content.decode("utf-8").replace(u"\u00a3", "*")

    content.decode("utf-8").replace(u"\u00a3", "*").encode("utf-8")

But when I print it, content doesn't change at all. It returns the same string.

Answer 1

更新您的content

content=content.decode("utf-8").replace(u"\u00a3", "*")

Answer 2

您不需要此编码/解码业务：

content=content.encode('utf-8').replace(u'£','*')

Answer 3

to print pound sign you should open file with encodigns flag ..

with open('data.csv', encoding='utf-8') as f: