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Created November 10, 2009 16:58
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isascii() on Python
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is_ascii.py
def isascii(c, printable = False):
if 0x00 <= ord(c) <= 0x7f:
if printable:
if 0x20 <= ord(c) <= 0x7e:
return True
else:
return False
else:
return True
else:
return False
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I think this would work as well:

def isascii(c, printable=False):
    return ((0x00 <= ord(c) <= 0x7f) and
            (not printable or (0x20 <= ord(c) <= 0x7e)))

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