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Strip non-printable characters in a Python string using a regex
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| # Should match all non-printables except Unicode whitespace characters | |
| r = re.compile(r'[^\w\s' + re.escape(string.punctuation) + ']') | |
| def clean(text): | |
| return r.sub('', text).strip() |
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