title: python strip function not working properly
body: <p>I am scraping some data from a website via python.</p>
  <p>I want to do two things</p>
  <ol>
  <li><p>I want to skip the first 2 words &quot;Dubai&quot; and &quot;UAE&quot; which are common in every webscraping result.</p>
  </li>
  <li><p>I want to save the last two words in two different variables with strip without the extra spaces.</p>
  <pre><code>    try:
          area= soup.find('div', 'location')
          area_result= str(area.get_text().strip().encode(&quot;utf-8&quot;))
          print &quot;Area: &quot;,area_result
  except StandardError as e:
          area_result=&quot;Error was {0}&quot;.format(e)
          print area_result
  </code></pre>
  </li>
  </ol>
  <p><strong>area_result:</strong> consists of the following data:</p>
  <pre><code>'UAE \xe2\x80\xaa&gt;\xe2\x80\xaa\n            \n                Dubai \xe2\x80\xaa&gt;\xe2\x80\xaa\n            \n                Business Bay \xe2\x80\xaa&gt;\xe2\x80\xaa\n            \n                Executive Towers \n            \n\n\n        \n\n\n\t    \n\t        \n\t    \n\t\n\n\n        \n        ;\n        \n            \n                \n                    1.4 km from Burj Khalifa Tower'
  </code></pre>
  <p>I want the above result to be displayed as (Note the <code>&gt;</code> between <code>Executive Towers</code> and <code>1.4 km..</code></p>
  <pre><code>Executive Towers &gt; 1.4 km from Burj Khalifa Tower
  </code></pre>