[Zope] Checking string for specific characters

[Robert Rottermann]

bad =' ()[]{}ÄÅÁÀÂÃäåáàâãÇçÉÈÊËéèêëæÍÌÎÏíìîïÑñÖÓÒÔÕØöóòôõøSsßÜÚÙÛüúùûÝYýÿ??'
good='_______AAAAAAaaaaaaCcEEEEeeeeeIIIIiiiiNnOOOOOOooooooSssUUUUuuuuYYyyZz'
TRANSMAP=string.maketrans(bad, good)
def fixId(anId):
  anId = string.translate(anId, TRANSMAP)

stolen with trembling fingers from CMFOptions

Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gitte Wange" <gitte@mmmanager.org>
To: "Zope mailinglist" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: [Zope] Checking string for specific characters


> Hello,
>
> I need to create some filenames from the titles of some objects.
> In order to make these filenames correct, I need to create a function
> that checks the title string in order to see if there are any
> "non-allowed" characters in the string and strip them.
>
> Right know I am doing a string.replace for the characters that aren't
> allowed, but it would be much easier to specify what characters that
> _is_ allowed.
>
> I guess the function that adds a new object to Zope does it ... but I
> cannot find that function.
>
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