def _clean_text(self, text):
    """Performs invalid character removal and whitespace cleanup on text."""
    output = []
    for char in text:
      cp = ord(char)
      if cp == 0 or cp == 0xfffd or _is_control(char):
        continue
      if _is_whitespace(char):
        output.append(" ")
      else:
        output.append(char)
    return "".join(output)
Performs invalid character removal and whitespace cleanup on text.
tokenization.py