title: How To Change Lists of Unicode to ASCII
body: <p>I'm trying to change these lists I'm getting from my school grade site from Unicode to ASCII.</p>
  
  <p>The lists look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>x = grades[1]
  print x        #Input
  
  [u'B', u'84']  #Output
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I don't want the u in there. I've tried to use</p>
  
  <pre><code>a.encode('ascii','ignore')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I get </p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Python27\Project.py", line 33, in &lt;module&gt;
      L1.encode('ascii','ignore')
  AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'encode'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is there anyway to do this?</p>