unable to print closing braces to file python while removing unprintable chars

Asked Feb 28 '20 at 11:32

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I am trying to replace unprintable characters from a line in python before writing the same to a file.

import re

line = 'Testing offset [4,-5]'
re.sub("[^[:print:]]", '?', line)

>> line
'Testing offset [4,-?'

I want the output to be like

'Testing offset [4,-5]'

Can somebody help on what I'm doing wrong?

asked Feb 28 '20 at 11:32

Deepanshu Arora

what do you mean by unprintable in this case? – PirateNinjas Feb 28 '20 at 11:34
Soemething such as Ctrl+M (Ctrl^M) characters which are not printable – Deepanshu Arora Feb 28 '20 at 11:36
`re` does not support POSIX character classes, use `regex` PyPi module instead, or convert to a regular character class. – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 28 '20 at 11:40

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