Re: Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a string



Hallöchen!

Paul McGuire writes:

On Dec 31, 2:54 am, abhishek <guptaabhishek1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Use this function --

def omitNonAscii(nstr):
    sstr=''
    for r in nstr:
        if ord(r)<127:
            sstr+=r
    return sstr

<Yoda>
Learn the ways of the generator expression you must.
</Yoda>

Stupid me! How could I miss such a lovely feature in the language?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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