A_H wrote:
Help!

I've scraped a PDF file for text and all the minus signs come back as
u'\xad'.

Is there any easy way I can change them all to plain old ASCII '-' ???

str.replace complained about a missing codec.



Hints?

Encoding it into a 'latin1' encoded string seems to work:

 >>> print u'\xad'.encode('latin1')
 -







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