title: Removing non-breaking spaces from strings using Python
body: <p>I am having some trouble with a very basic string issue in Python (that I can't figure out). Basically, I am trying to do  the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'# read file into a string 
  myString =  file.read()
  
  '# Attempt to remove non breaking spaces 
  myString = myString.replace("\u00A0"," ")
  
  '# however, when I print my string to output to console, I get: 
  Foo **&lt;C2&gt;&lt;A0&gt;** Bar
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought that the "\u00A0" was the escape code for unicode non breaking spaces, but apparently I am not doing this properly. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?</p>