hi... i'm running into a problem where i'm seeing non-ascii chars in the parsing i'm doing. in looking through various docs, i can't find functions to remove/restrict strings to valid ascii chars.
i'm assuming python has something like valid_str = strip(invalid_str) where 'strip' removes/strips out the invalid chars... any ideas/thoughts/pointers... thanks -bruce -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list