Replace accented chars with unaccented ones

[Noah]

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> wrote in message news:<c37ugc$llq$1 at news.service.uci.edu>...
> >             r += xlate[ord(i)]
> >             r += i
> 
> Perhaps I'm going to have to create a signature and drop information 
> about this in every post to c.l.py, but repeated string additions are 
> slow as hell for any reasonably large lengthed string.  It is much 
> faster to place characters into a list and ''.join() them.

True. Is this better?

    ... body of latin1_to_ascii() ...
    r = []
    for i in unicrap:
        if xlate.has_key(ord(i)):
            r.append (xlate[ord(i)])
        elif ord(i) >= 0x80:
            pass
        else:
            r.append (i)
    return ''.join(r)


Yours,
Noah