non printable (moving away from Perl)

Fri Mar 11 09:23:09 EST 2016

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.
ANy idea on how I can create a script that compares Perl speed vs. Python speed
in performing the cleaning operation?