from rapidfuzz.utils import default_process as _default_process translation_table = {i: None for i in range(128, 256)} # ascii dammit! def ascii_only(s): return s.translate(translation_table) def full_process(s, force_ascii=False): """ Process string by -- removing all but letters and numbers -- trim whitespace -- force to lower case if force_ascii == True, force convert to ascii """ if force_ascii: s = ascii_only(str(s)) return _default_process(s)