+    ## Replace emdashes with hyphens

+    str_list = [str.replace('--', '-') for x in str_list]

+    

+    ## Remove non-ASCII characters

+    ## HAVEN'T PERSONALLY TESTED THIS YET

+    ## Got solution from https://yuji.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/python-sql-remove-all-non-ascii-characters-from-string/

+    for s in str_list

+        s = ''.join([x for x in s if ord(x) < 128])

+    

+    """Standardize capitalization and word delimiters for a list of strings.

+    

+    Args:

+        str_list (list): A list of of input strings.

+        delim (char): The desired output word delimiter - must be one of 

+        ' ' (i.e. space), '-', '_', or '.'

+        

+    Returns:

+        List of input strings, converted to uppercase with word delimiters

+        converted to the user's chosen delimiter.

+        

+    Depends:

+        Modules re and sys.

+    

+    Examples:

+        >>>import re

+        >>>import sys

+        >>>ny = [' New York City ', 'New-York_City', 'new.york.city']

+        >>>print(stand_strings(ny, "_"))

+        ['NEW_YORK_CITY', 'NEW_YORK_CITY', 'NEW_YORK_CITY']

+

+    """

+    

+    ## Check for appropriate word delimiter selection

+    if delim not in [' ', '-', '_', '.']:

+        sys.exit('''Please select one of the following for the output word delimiter:

+            " " (space), "-", "_", "." ''')

+    

+    ## Convert to uppercase, strip leading/trailing whitespace        

+    str_list = [x.upper().strip() for x in str_list]

+    

+    ## Swap out whitespace, dash, period, underscore for selected delimiter

+    str_list = [re.sub('\s|\.|-|_', delim, x) for x in str_list]