And this run OK for me :
s = 'aaaaa � aaa'
print s
print s.replace('�', '')-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
And this run OK for me :
s = 'aaaaa � aaa'
print s
print s.replace('�', '')-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list