title: Using unicodedata.normalize in Python 2.7
body: <p>Once again, I am very confused with a unicode question. I can't figure out how to successfully use <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/unicodedata.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">unicodedata.normalize</a> to convert non-ASCII characters as expected. For instance, I want to convert the string</p>
  
  <pre><code>u"Cœur"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To</p>
  
  <pre><code>u"Coeur"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am pretty sure that unicodedata.normalize is the way to do this, but I can't get it to work. It just leaves the string unchanged.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; s = u"Cœur"
  &gt;&gt;&gt; unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', s) == s
  True
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>