non printable (moving away from Perl)

[Ian Kelly]

On Mar 10, 2016 5:15 PM, "Fillmore" <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Here's another handy Perl regex which I am not sure how to translate to
Python.
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> I use it to avoid processing lines that contain funny chars...
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> if ($string =~ /[^[:print:]]/) {next OUTER;}

Python's re module doesn't support POSIX character classes, but the regex
module on PyPI does.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex