Fastest way to detect a non-ASCII character in a list of strings.

Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Mon Oct 18 12:02:43 EDT 2010


On 10/18/10 09:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
> There's no easy way to even define what "printable" means.  Ask three
> different people, and you'll get at least four different answers
> answers.

I don't have a printer...that makes *all* characters unprintable, 
right?  Now I can convert the algorithm to O(1)

   def is_printable(L):
     return False

-tkc






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