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Re: non printable (moving away from Perl)

From Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: non printable (moving away from Perl)
Date 2016-03-11 14:36 -0500
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On 3/11/2016 2:23 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2016-03-11 00:07, Fillmore wrote:
>>
>> Here's another handy Perl regex which I am not sure how to translate to
>> Python.
>>
>> I use it to avoid processing lines that contain funny chars...
>>
>> if ($string =~ /[^[:print:]]/) {next OUTER;}
>>
>> :)
>>
> Python 3 (Unicode) strings have an .isprintable method:
>
> mystring.isprintable()
>

my strings are UTF-8. Will it work there too?

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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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