non printable (moving away from Perl)

Fri Mar 11 14:36:06 EST 2016

On 3/11/2016 2:23 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2016年03月11日 00:07, Fillmore 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 3 (Unicode) strings have an .isprintable method:
>> mystring.isprintable()
>
my strings are UTF-8. Will it work there too?