easy way to remove nonprintable chars from string

[Isaac Raway]

This seems to work. Not sure how fast it'd be, though.

def stripNoPrint(str):
    results = ""
    for char in str:
        if string.printable.find(char):
            results += char
    return results

Don Hiatt wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Is there an easy way to remove multiple non-printable
>(e.g. "not strings.printable") from a string? Perhaps
>something like foo.replace(list_of_nonprintables, '')
>if it only existed? :-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>don
>  
>