Detec nonascii in a string

[Gerard Flanagan]

Sebastian Bassi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do I detect non-ascii letters in a string?
> I want to detect the condition that a string have a letter that is not
> here: string.ascii_letters
>
> Best regards,
> SB.
>
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see:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/9011319757576f45/

eg.  ord(max(string)) < 128     ( Scott David Daniels ).


Gerard