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Greetings,

Is there an easy way to remove multiple non-printable
(e.g. "not strings.printable") from a string? Perhaps
something like foo.replace(list_of_nonprintables, '')
if it only existed?

Cheers,

don

Don> Is there an easy way to remove multiple non-printable (e.g. "not
Don> strings.printable") from a string? Perhaps something like
Don> foo.replace(list_of_nonprintables, '') if it only existed?

Check out the string module's translate function.

Skip

This seems to work. Not sure how fast it'd be, though.

def stripNoPrint(str):
results = ""
for char in str:
if string.printable.find(char):
results += char
return results

Don Hiatt wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Is there an easy way to remove multiple non-printable
>(e.g. "not strings.printable") from a string? Perhaps
>something like foo.replace(list_of_nonprintables, '')
>if it only existed?
>
>Cheers,
>
>don
>
>

"Don Hiatt" <> wrote in message
news: om...
> Is there an easy way to remove multiple non-printable
> (e.g. "not strings.printable") from a string? Perhaps
> something like foo.replace(list_of_nonprintables, '')
> if it only existed?


>>> help(str.translate)
translate(...)
S.translate(table [,deletechars]) -> string

Return a copy of the string S, where all characters occurring
in the optional argument deletechars are removed, and the
remaining characters have been mapped through the given
translation table, which must be a string of length 256.

>>> s_identity=''.join([chr(i) for i in range(256)]) # the 'table' you
need

Terry J. Reedy