I created a graph in Networkx by importing edge information in through nx.read_edgelist(). This all works fine and the graph loads. 
The problem is when I print the neighbors of a node, I get the following for example... 
[u'own', u'record', u'spending', u'companies', u'back', u'shares', u'their', u'amounts', u'are', u'buying']
This happens for all calls to the nodes and edges of the graph. It is obviously not changing the names of the nodes seeing as it is outside of the quotations. 
Can someone advise me how to get rid of these 'u's when printing out the graph nodes.
I am a Python novice and I'm sure it is something very obvious and easy.
You don't need to get rid of them, they don't do anything other than specify the encoding type. This can be helpful sometimes, but I can't think of a time when it isn't helpful.
Networkx appends 'u' before node names after reading in from an edge list. How to get rid?