Дамјан Георгиевски wrote:
Is there any easy function in the stdlib to convert any random string in a valid Python identifier .. possibly by replacing non-valid characters with _ ?Python 2.x only, so no need to do Unicode.
Lookup the 'maketrans' function in the 'string' module and the 'translate' method of the 'str' class. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list