Read and Print ASCII >128 as is in cp437 on DOT-MATRIX printer or file regardless local setting

[Walter Dörwald]

Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

 > [...]

> So, an alternative which will ignore all unconvertible characters is:
> 
> result = []
> for c in unicode(data, 'cp437'):
>     try:
>         result.append(c.encode('iso-8859-2')) # or 'us-ascii', or ...
>     except:
>         pass
> print ''.join(result)


This can be done much simpler:

print unicode(data, 'cp437').encode('iso-8859-2', "ignore")


Bye,
    Walter Dörwald