Help Replacing Non-ASCII character in Python

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I have a bunch of HTML files I downloaded using HTTPLIB2 package in Python. ' ' are showing as 'Â '.

02/12/2004Â is showing while 02/12/2004&nbsp; is the desired format.

How do I replace the 'Â ' with ' ' in Python? Thanks a lot!

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