from io import open import glob import os import unicodedata import string all_letters = string.ascii_letters + " .,;'" n_letters = len(all_letters) def findFiles(path): return glob.glob(path) def unicodeToAscii(s): return ''.join( c for c in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', s) if unicodedata.category(c) != 'Mn' and c in all_letters ) print(unicodeToAscii('Ślusàrski')) print(findFiles('text_data/names/*.txt'))