replacement for string.printable

[John K Masters]

>From what I have read the string module is obsolete and should not be
used but I am working on a project that parses printable files created
in a DOS program and creates a web page for each file. I am using the
string.printable constant to determine which characters should be kept;
the files contain many print control codes. There seems to be nothing
like this in the string methods. isalnum() seems the nearest but gives
false for '+' '!' etc.

I realise I could define a global string to cover this but wondered if
there was another, better, way

Regards, John
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