Re: Filtering out non-readable characters

Jp Calderone wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:01:50 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
George Sakkis wrote:
identity = string.maketrans('','') 

Wow!  That's handy, not to mention undocumented.  (At least in the
string module docs.)  Where did you learn that, George?

http://python.org/doc/lib/node109.html

Perhaps I was unclear. I thought it would be obvious that I knew where to find the docs for maketrans(), but that the particular behaviour shown (i.e. arguments of '' having that effect) was undocumented in that page.

-Peter
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