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 I have some text that I am trying to decode and encode in Python 

 import html.parser

 original_tweet = "I luv my <3 iphone & you’re awsm 
 apple.DisplayIsAwesome, sooo happppppy 🙂 
 http://www.apple.com"
 tweet = original_tweet.decode("utf8").encode('ascii', 'ignore')
 

I have entered the original tweet on one line in Spyder (Python 3.6)

I get the following message 

 AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

 Is there an alternative way to rewrite this code for Python 3.6?