Is there a string function to trim all non-ascii characters out of a string

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

Paul McGuire writes:

> On Dec 31, 2:54 am, abhishek <guptaabhishek1... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Use this function --
>>
>> def omitNonAscii(nstr):
>>     sstr=''
>>     for r in nstr:
>>         if ord(r)<127:
>>             sstr+=r
>>     return sstr
>
> <Yoda>
> Learn the ways of the generator expression you must.
> </Yoda>

Stupid me!  How could I miss such a lovely feature in the language?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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