printable characters

[Fredrik Lundh]

Ralf Hildebrandt <hildeb at www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> How can I find out if a character is printable?
> There seems to be no equivalent to isprint() of C.

that's probably because "isprint" is completely brain-
dead: after all, whether a character is "printable" or
not depends on the output device...

> Right now I use:
> 
> def isprint(char):
>     return (ord(char) in range(32, 127))

def isprint(char, lo=chr(32), hi=chr(126)):
    return lo <= char <= hi

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