On Oct 31, 9:12 pm, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote:
> I would claim that a well-written (in C) translate function, without
> using the delete option, should be much quicker than any python loop,
> even if it does copy the data.
Are you arguing with me? I was agreeing with you, I thought, that
translate would be faster than a regex. I also pointed out that the
delete function was available as , but OTOH, that might be a little
slow because I think it does the deletion before the translate. I
think I'd just do something like this:
>>> transtab = ''.join(' ' if 32 <= x <= 126 else chr(x) for x in range(256))
>>> 'abc\x05\def\x0aghi'.translate(transtab).replace(' ', '')
'\x05\n'
Regards,
Pat
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