non printable (moving away from Perl)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 11/03/2016 00:25, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2016 5:15 PM, "Fillmore" <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Here's another handy Perl regex which I am not sure how to translate to
> Python.
>>
>> I use it to avoid processing lines that contain funny chars...
>>
>> 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
>

There are plenty of testers for the re module, but do you know if there 
are any available for the above, as it's not the easiest thing to search 
for?

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence