Eliminación de caracteres similares a unicode u2026 en una cadena en python2. 7

Tengo una cadena en python2. 7 como esta, 

 This is some \u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\u2026! it\u0027s annoying!

¿Cómo lo convierto a esto,

This is some text that has to be cleaned! its annoying!
Author: Sandeep Raju Prabhakar, 2013-03-10
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>>> s
'This is some \\u03c0 text that has to be cleaned\\u2026! it\\u0027s annoying!'
>>> print(s.decode('unicode_escape').encode('ascii','ignore'))
This is some  text that has to be cleaned! it's annoying!
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