On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:27:25 -0700, CC wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: >> I'd use `string.printable` and remove the "invisible" characters like '\n' >> or '\t'. > > What is `string.printable` ? There is no printable method to strings, > though I had hoped there would be. I don't yet know how to make one.
In [8]: import string In [9]: string.printable Out[9]: '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&\'( )*+,-./:;<=>[EMAIL PROTECTED]|}~\t\n\r\x0b\x0c' >>>for c in ln: >>> if c in printable: sys.stdout.write(c) >>> else: sys.stdout.write('.') > >> The translation table can be created once and should be faster. > > I suppose the way I'm doing it requires a search through `printable` for > each c, right? Whereas the translation would just be a lookup > operation? Correct. And it is written in C. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list