bruce wrote: > hi... > > i'm running into a problem where i'm seeing non-ascii chars in the parsing > i'm doing. in looking through various docs, i can't find functions to > remove/restrict strings to valid ascii chars. > > i'm assuming python has something like > > valid_str = strip(invalid_str) > > where 'strip' removes/strips out the invalid chars... > > any ideas/thoughts/pointers... > > thanks > > -bruce
You might be able to use the translate() and maketrans() string methods. See http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/tree/browse_frm/thread/261516dd06ee32e6/9a02a21c95bd0ec9 second-to-last post for an example. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list