def simple_clean(string):
    try:
        string = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD',string).encode('ascii','ignore')
    except __HOLE__:
        pass
        #log.error("unicode typeerror!")
    return string.strip().lower()

# throw out the lowest one and calculate an average.
dataset/ETHPy150Open sunlightlabs/read_FEC/fecreader/reconciliation/fec_reconciler.py/simple_clean