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Re: non printable (moving away from Perl)

From Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: non printable (moving away from Perl)
Date 2016-03-11 13:17 +0100
Message-ID <mailman.18.1457698808.26429.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
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On 11.03.2016 13:13, 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
>

Err, I meant:

if (set(my_string) - printable):
     break

of course. No need to attempt another set conversion.

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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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