Re: non printable (moving away from Perl)

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Fillmore wrote:

> On 03/11/2016 07:13 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
>> One lesson for Perl regex users is that in Python many things can be
>> solved without regexes. How about defining:
>>
>> printable = {chr(n) for n in range(32, 127)}
>>
>> then using:
>>
>> if (set(my_string) - set(printable)):
>>      break
> 
> seems computationally heavy. I have a file with about 70k lines, of which
> only 20 contain "funny" chars.
> 
> ANy idea on how I can create a script that compares Perl speed vs. Python
> speed in performing the cleaning operation?

Try 

for line in ...:
    if has_nonprint(line):
        continue
    ...

with the has_nonprint() function as defined below:

$ cat isprint.py
import sys
import unicodedata


class Lookup(dict):
    def __missing__(self, n):
        c = chr(n)
        cat = unicodedata.category(c)
        if cat in {'Cs', 'Cn', 'Zl', 'Cc', 'Zp'}:
            self[n] = c
            return c
        else:
            self[n] = None
            return None


lookup = Lookup()
lookup[10] = None # allow newline

def has_nonprint(s):
    return bool(s.translate(lookup))

$ python3 -i isprint.py
>>> has_nonprint("foo")
False
>>> has_nonprint("foo\n")
False
>>> has_nonprint("foo\t")
True
>>> has_nonprint("\0foo")
True

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non printable (moving away from Perl) Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-10 19:07 -0500
  Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 17:25 -0700
  Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-11 01:30 +0000
  Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-10 20:52 -0700
  Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-03-11 13:13 +0100
    Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 09:23 -0500
      Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-03-11 16:22 +0100
      Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-03-11 17:34 +0100
      Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-03-11 10:08 -0700
  Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2016-03-11 13:17 +0100
    Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-03-11 14:47 +0200
  Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-03-11 19:23 +0000
    Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> - 2016-03-11 14:36 -0500
      Re: non printable (moving away from Perl) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-12 06:52 +1100

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