On 4/18/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Heimes wrote: > > > What do you think about replacing the definitions by information from > > the unicode character properties database. > > I'm not sure I like the idea of pulling a rather large > database into the basic string module.
Agreed. Though most of the database is loaded as part of the unicode string object anyway, to support isupper() etc. > Also, even in a unicode world, it can be useful to > deal just with ascii letters and digits, e.g. when > processing a programming language. Right, I like having ascii_letters etc. (though I don't care about where it lives or this particular name -- only about the functionality). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
