2011/9/13 ron <vacor...@gmail.com>:
>
> Depending on the load, you can do something like:
>
> "".join([x for x in string if ord(x) < 128])
>
> It's worked great for me in cleaning input on webapps where there's a
> lot of copy/paste from varied sources.
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Well, for this kind of dirty "data cleaning" you may as well use e.g.
>>> u"äteöxt ÛÜÝ wiÉÊËÌthÞßà áânoûüýþn ASɔɕɖCɗɘəɚɛIɗɘəɚɛIεζ iηθιn
>>> жзbetийклweeჟრსn .ტუ..ფ".encode("ascii", "ignore").decode("ascii")
u'text with non ASCII in between ...'
>>>
vbr
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