how to remove accents from a string in python

Question

i recently made a test in university and the question was like this-"ask a name,and remove the accents from it and print it"(there was more to the question but this was the main problem for me). My teacher didn′t allow us to use string or list methods, just the basic things literally(if, while loop, for loop, arrays),the only methods that we where allowed to use were the find() , index() and len().

So for example the name José needed to be printed has Jose, or José Magalh?es should be Jose Magalhaes

If you could say a way to to this with the basic things i would be appreciated. thank you.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65833714/how-to-remove-accents-from-a-string-in-python

Answer 1

text_normalizing_map = {'à': 'A',
        'á': 'A',
        '?': 'A',
        '?': 'A',
        '?': 'A',
        'è': 'E',
        'é': 'E',
        'ê': 'E',
        '?': 'E',
        'í': 'I',
        'ì': 'I',
        '?': 'I',
        '?': 'I',
        'ù': 'U',
        'ú': 'U',
        '?': 'U',
        'ü': 'U',
        'ò': 'O',
        'ó': 'O',
        '?': 'O',
        '?': 'O',
        '?': 'O',
        '?': 'N',
        '?': 'C',
        'a': 'A',
        'o': 'O',
        '§': 'S',
        '3': '3',
        '2': '2',
        '1': '1',
        'à': 'a',
        'á': 'a',
        'a': 'a',
        '?': 'a',
        '?': 'a',
        'è': 'e',
        'é': 'e',
        'ê': 'e',
        '?': 'e',
        'í': 'i',
        'ì': 'i',
        '?': 'i',
        '?': 'i',
        'ù': 'u',
        'ú': 'u',
        '?': 'u',
        'ü': 'u',
        'ò': 'o',
        'ó': 'o',
        '?': 'o',
        '?': 'o',
        '?': 'o',
        '?': 'n',
        '?': 'c'}

def normalize(text):
    list_text = list(text)
    for index, i in enumerate(list_text):
        val = text_normalizing_map.get(i)
        if(val):
            list_text[index] = val
    return "".join(list_text)

print(normalize("José Magalh?es "))

output

Jose Magalhaes