On 11.03.2016 15:23, Fillmore wrote:
On 03/11/2016 07:13 AM, 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

seems computationally heavy. I have a file with about 70k lines, of
which only 20 contain "funny" chars.


Not sure what you call computationally heavy. I just test-parsed a 30 MB file (28k lines) with:

with open(my_file) as i:
    for line in i:
        if set(line) - printable:
            continue

and it finished in less than a second.

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