# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
# Date 1616615903 25200
# Node ID 6df7507e6338d9a90306f2fc0fe8ba72786e1bd3
# Parent  e5861cbbc4bbba04a4b423fb52e51ebbdf0ee4f3
add script to remove unicode

diff -r e5861cbbc4bb -r 6df7507e6338 python/strip_unicode.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/python/strip_unicode.py	Wed Mar 24 12:58:23 2021 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import string
+import sys
+
+
+def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
+
+    if args:
+        message = ' '.join(args)
+    else:
+        message = sys.stdin.read()
+
+    print(''.join(i for i in message if i in string.printable))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()