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February 20, 2013 08:56
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| import unicodedata | |
| import re | |
| chars = (unichr(i) for i in xrange(0x110000)) | |
| cc = ''.join(c for c in chars if unicodedata.category(c) == 'Cc') | |
| # or equivalently and much more efficiently | |
| cc = ''.join(map(unichr, range(0,32) + range(127,160))) | |
| cc_re = re.compile('[%s]' % re.escape(cc)) | |
| def remove_cc(s): | |
| return cc_re.sub('', s) |
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