title: Python: Create strikethrough / strikeout / overstrike string type
body: <p>I would appreciate some help in creating a function that iterates through a string and combines each character with a strikethrough character (\u0336). With the output being a striked out version of the original string. <strike>Like this.</strike>.</p>
  
  <p>Something like.</p>
  
  <pre><code>def strike(text):
      i = 0
      new_text = ''
      while i &lt; len(text):
          new_text = new_text + (text[i] + u'\u0336')
          i = i + 1
      return(new_text)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So far I've only been able to concatenate rather than combine.</p>