> Just a pair of usage cases which I was facing in my practice:
> So I just define a table like:
> {
> 1072: 97
> 1073: 98
> 1074: 99
> ...
> [which localizes Cyrillic into ASCII]
> ...
> 97:97
> 98:98
> 99:99
> ...
> [those chars that are OK, leave them]
> }
>
> Then I use os.walk() and os.rename() and voila! the file system
> regains it virginity
> in one simple script.
This sounds like a perfect use case for str.translate() as it is.
> 2. Say I have a multi-lingual file or whatever, I want to filter out
> some unwanted
> characters so I can do it similarly.
Filtering out is different-- but I would think that you would want
replace, rather than remove.
If you wanted names to all comply with a given encoding (ascii or
Latin-1, or...), then encoding/decoding (with error set to replace)
would do nicely.
-CHB
>
>
> Mikhail
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