Remove unicode characters python
<p>I am pulling tweets in python using tweepy.
It gives the entire data in type unicode.
Eg: print type(data) gives me <code>&lt;type 'unicode'&gt;</code></p>

<p>It contains unicode characters in it.
Eg: <code>hello\u2026 im am fine\u2019s</code></p>

<p>I want to remove all of these unicode characters. Is there any regular expression i can use?
<code>str.replace</code> isn't a viable option as unicode characters can be any values, from smileys to unicode apostrophes.</p>