strip unicode characters from strings python

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2def strip_non_ascii(string):
3    ''' Returns the string without non ASCII characters'''
4    stripped = (c for c in string if 0 < ord(c) < 127)
5    return ''.join(stripped)
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8test = u'éáé123456tgreáé@€'
9print test
10print strip_non_ascii(test)