[Tutor] clean text

[spir]

Le Tue, 19 May 2009 11:36:17 +0200,
spir <denis.spir at free.fr> s'exprima ainsi:

> Hello,
> 
> This is a follow the post on performance issues.
> Using a profiler, I realized that inside error message creation, most of
> the time was spent in a tool func used to clean up source text output. The
> issue is that when the source text holds control chars such as \n, then the
> error message is hardly readible. MY solution is to replace such chars with
> their repr():
> 
> def _cleanRepr(text):
> 	''' text with control chars replaced by repr() equivalent '''
> 	result = ""
> 	for char in text:
> 		n = ord(char)
> 		if (n < 32) or (n > 126 and n < 160):
> 			char = repr(char)[1:-1]
> 		result += char
> 	return result

Changed to:

def _cleanRepr(text):
	''' text with control chars replaced by repr() equivalent '''
	chars = []
	for char in text:
		n = ord(char)
		if (n < 32) or (n > 126 and n < 160):
			char = repr(char)[1:-1]
		chars.append(char)
	return ''.join(chars)

But what else can I do?

Denis
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