# Import the os and re modules import os import re # Define the directory where the csv files are located directory = "." # Define a function to remove invalid characters from a csv file def remove_invalid_chars(file): # Open the file in read mode with UTF-8 encoding and ignore errors with open(file, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore") as infile: # Read the file content as a string content = infile.read() # Remove any null bytes from the string content = content.replace("\x00", "") # Remove any non-printable characters from the string # content = re.sub(r"[^\x20-\x7E]", "", content) # Open the file in write mode with UTF-8 encoding with open(file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as outfile: # Write the modified content to the file outfile.write(content) # Loop through each file in the directory for file in os.listdir(directory): # Check if the file is a csv file if file.endswith(".csv"): # Remove invalid characters from the csv file and print the result print(f"Removing invalid characters from {file}...") remove_invalid_chars(os.path.join(directory, file)) print(f"{file} is cleaned.")