title: Python string prints as [u'String']
body: <p>This will surely be an easy one but it is really bugging me. </p>
  
  <p>I have a script that reads in a webpage and uses <a href="https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/" rel="noreferrer">Beautiful Soup</a> to parse it. From the <em>soup</em> I extract all the links as my final goal is to print out the link.contents.</p>
  
  <p>All of the text that I am parsing is ASCII. I know that Python treats strings as unicode, and I am sure this is very handy, just of no use in my wee script. </p>
  
  <p>Every time I go to print out a variable that holds 'String' I get <code>[u'String']</code> printed to the screen. Is there a simple way of getting this back into just ascii or should I write a regex to strip it?</p>