non printable (moving away from Perl)

Thu Mar 10 20:30:39 EST 2016

On 11/03/2016 00:25, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2016 5:15 PM, "Fillmore" <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Here's another handy Perl regex which I am not sure how to translate to
> Python.
>>>> I use it to avoid processing lines that contain funny chars...
>>>> if ($string =~ /[^[:print:]]/) {next OUTER;}
>> Python's re module doesn't support POSIX character classes, but the regex
> module on PyPI does.
>> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
>
There are plenty of testers for the re module, but do you know if there 
are any available for the above, as it's not the easiest thing to search 
for?
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