You should use the s.translate() It's 100x faster: #Creates the translation table ValidChars = ":./,^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" InvalidChars = "".join([chr(i) for i in range(256) if not chr(i).lower() in ValidChars]) TranslationTable = "".join([chr(i) for i in range(256)])
def valid_filename(fname): return fname.translate(TranslationTable, InvalidChars) >> valid = >> ':./,^0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ' >> >> if I have a string called fname I want to go through each character in >> the filename and if it is not a valid character, then I want >> to replace >> it with a space. -- Ceci est une signature automatique de MesNews. Site : http://www.mesnews.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
