On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:59:22 +0100, Dun Peal <[email protected]> wrote:
`all_ascii(L)` is a function that accepts a list of strings L, and
returns True if all of those strings contain only ASCII chars, False
otherwise.
What's the fastest way to implement `all_ascii(L)`?
My ideas so far are:
1. Match against a regexp with a character range: `[ -~]`
2. Use s.decode('ascii')
3. `return all(31< ord(c) < 127 for s in L for c in s)`
Don't call it "all_ascii" when you don't mean that; all_printable
would be more accurate, and would have lead you through more
interesting places in the standard library, like:
import string
return set("".join(L)) <= set(string.printable)
I've no idea whether this is faster or slower than any of
your suggestions. You could "timeit" and see, or you could
wait a bit and not optimise prematurely.
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