way to remove all non-ascii characters from a file?

[Larry Bates]

Something simple like following will work for files
that fit in memory:

def onlyascii(char):
    if ord(char) < 48 or ord(char) > 127: return ''
    else: return char

f=open('filename.ext','r')
data=f.read()
f.close()
filtered_data=filter(onlyascii, data)

For larger files you will need to loop and read
the data in chunks.

-Larry Bates
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"omission9" <rus20376 at salemstate.edu> wrote in message
news:defa238f.0402131112.436997c1 at posting.google.com...
> I have a text file which contains the occasional non-ascii charcter.
> What is the best way to remove all of these in python?