non printable (moving away from Perl)

[Wolfgang Maier]

On 11.03.2016 13:13, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
> One lesson for Perl regex users is that in Python many things can be
> solved without regexes. How about defining:
>
> printable = {chr(n) for n in range(32, 127)}
>
> then using:
>
> if (set(my_string) - set(printable)):
>      break
>

Err, I meant:

if (set(my_string) - printable):
     break

of course. No need to attempt another set conversion.