Filtering out non-readable characters

I have a file with binary and ascii characters in it. I massage the
data and convert it to a more readable format, however it still comes
up with some binary characters mixed in. I'd like to write something
to just replace all non-printable characters with '' (I want to delete
non-printable characters).

I am having trouble figuring out an easy python way to do this... is
the easiest way to just write some regular expression that does
something like replace [^\p] with ''?

Or is it better to go through every character and do ord(character),
check the ascii values?

What's the easiest way to do something like this?

thanks
Received on Thu Sep 29 16:58:23 2005