easy way to remove nonprintable chars from string

[Bjorn Pettersen]

> From: Isaac Raway [mailto:isaac at blueapples.org] 
> >Don Hiatt wrote:
> 
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Is there an easy way to remove multiple non-printable
> >(e.g. "not strings.printable") from a string? Perhaps
> >something like foo.replace(list_of_nonprintables, '')
> >if it only existed? :-)
>
> This seems to work. Not sure how fast it'd be, though.
> 
> def stripNoPrint(str):
>     results = ""
>     for char in str:
>         if string.printable.find(char):
>             results += char
>     return results

try it on the string '0 plus 1 equals 1' :-)

-- bjorn