help with UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'Phase \u2013 II', 6, 7, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
<p>having problem with 
UnicodeEncodeError('ascii', u'Phase \u2013 II', 6, 7, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
Basically what I am doing here is reading the value from excel sheet 
and sheet contain address in this format </p>

<pre><code>Phase- II
</code></pre>

<p>So wanted to know how to change`</p>

<pre><code>somestring = u'Phase \u2013 II'
</code></pre>

<p>to str</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>`</p>
