Fastest way to detect a non-ASCII character in a list of strings.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-10-18, Steven D'Aprano <steve-REMOVE-THIS at cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> Neither is accurate. all_ascii would be:
>
> all(ord(c) <= 127 for c in string for string in L)

Definitely.

> all_printable would be considerably harder. As far as I can tell, there's 
> no simple way to tell if a character is printable.

There's no easy way to even define what "printable" means.  Ask three
different people, and you'll get at least four different answers
answers.

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