remove the prefix u' from the list

Question

This could be easier one but this one is bugging me for a while. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Problem Definition: Make the list output looks good by removing the unicode value prefixed to the data.

Here is my code:

nfl = np.genfromtxt("drinks.csv", dtype="<U75", skip_header=1, delimiter=",")
print(nfl)

output is as follows:

[[u'Afghanistan' u'0' u'0' u'0' u'0.0']
 [u'Albania' u'89' u'132' u'54' u'4.9']
 [u'Algeria' u'25' u'0' u'14' u'0.7']
 [u'Andorra' u'245' u'138' u'312' u'12.4']
 [u'Angola' u'217' u'57' u'45' u'5.9']]

I also tried to print it like print(str(nfl)).No luck!How would I modify the output?

What I wanted to see is

[['Afghanistan' '0' '0' '0' '0.0']
 ['Albania' '89' '132' '54' '4.9']
 ['Algeria' '25' '0' '14' '0.7']
 ['Andorra' '245' '138' '312' '12.4']
 ['Angola' '217' '57' '45' '5.9']]

Answer 1

You can change the encoding to utf8 (the u stands for Unicode).
Code example:

item.encode('utf8')

Remember to import the library 'unicodedata'.

Answer 2

The commas are missing form your lists which won't help but I think it's just that you are seeing the list is its raw state. If you actually pull out the data you'll find the 'u' is gone.

data = [[u'Afghanistan', u'0', u'0', u'0', u'0.0'],
 [u'Albania', u'89', u'132', u'54', u'4.9'],
 [u'Algeria', u'25', u'0', u'14', u'0.7'],
 [u'Andorra', u'245', u'138', u'312', u'12.4'],
 [u'Angola', u'217', u'57', u'45', u'5.9']]

for country in data:
    for item in country:
        print item

I hope that's what you're asking.

Answer 3

@hpaulj comment helped me and I got the desired output.

nfl = np.genfromtxt("drinks.csv", dtype="S75", skip_header=1, delimiter=",")
print(nfl)

I have got my desired output:

[['Afghanistan' '0' '0' '0' '0.0']
 ['Albania' '89' '132' '54' '4.9']
 ['Algeria' '25' '0' '14' '0.7']
 ['Andorra' '245' '138' '312' '12.4']
 ['Angola' '217' '57' '45' '5.9']]

Thanks All!