title: TypeError: zip argument #1 must support iteration
body: <pre><code>for k,v in targets.iteritems():
      price= str(v['stockprice'])
  
      Bids = str(u''.join(v['OtherBids']))
      Bids = Bids.split(',')
  
      # create a list of unique bids by ranking
      for a, b in zip(float(price), Bids):
          try:
              del b[next(i for i, e in enumerate(b) if format(e, '.4f')  == a)]
          except StopIteration:
              pass
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am extracting data from my dictionary but it seems that all of them are in unicode. How may I get rid of the unicode nonsense?</p>