On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:09:09 -0800, John Machin wrote: > On Dec 31, 7:20 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a >> string? >> Let say I have a string in python (which is utf8 encoded), is there a >> python function which I can convert that to a string which composed of >> only ascii characters? >> >> > OK, I'll bite: why do you want to throw data away?
Maybe he has to send the data to a device that can't deal with more than 7-bit ASCII. Maybe he's sick of seeing text with "missing character" squares all over from all the characters that his fonts can't display. Maybe the string ends up as a file name on an operating system that doesn't support unicode. Or maybe he's just a curmudgeon who thinks life was better when there were only 128 characters available. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
