On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:48:33 -0800, augustus.kling wrote:
> Hello,
>
> try using regular expressions.
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use
regular expressions'. Now they have two problems." -- Jamie Zawinski
The original poster asked:
"How can I check that a string does NOT contain NON English characters?"
REs are rather overkill for something so simple, don't you think?
import string
english = string.printable # is this what you want?
english = string.ascii_letters + string.digits # or maybe this?
english = "abc..." # or just manually set the characters yourself
for c in some_string:
if c not in english:
print "Not English!!!"
break
else:
print "English!"
if you want it as a function, it is even more flexible:
def all_good(s, goodchars=None):
if goodchars is None:
goodchars = string.printable
for c in s:
if c not in goodchars:
return False
return True
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