George Sakkis wrote: > No there's not a stripUnprintable in a standard module AFAIK, and > that's a good thing; if every little function that one might ever wanted > made it to the standard library, the language would be overwhelming.
...and if there was a stripUnprintable function in the standard library that was based on C's mostly brain-dead locale model, US programmers would produce even more web applications that just don't work for non- US users... ("sanitizing" HTML data by running filters over encoded 8-bit data is hardly ever the right thing to do...) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list