Filtering out non-readable characters

[Peter Hansen]

George Sakkis wrote:
> "Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>>>> Where did you learn that, George?
> 
> Actually I first read about this in the Cookbook; there are two or three 
 > recipes related to string.translate. As for string.maketrans, it
 > doesn't do anything special for empty string arguments: ...

I guess so.  I was going to offer to suggest a new paragraph on that 
usage for the docs, but as you and Jp both seem to think the behaviour 
is obvious, I conclude "it's just me" so I suppose I shouldn't bother.

-Peter