Dimitri Papadopoulos Orfanos added the comment: In Python 3 the situation is similar: * The Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro is used internally to define str.isspace() and wherever Python needs to detect "whitespace" characters in strings. * There is an equivalent function Py_ISSPACE for bytes/bytearray. * The bytearray.strip() implementation for bytearray relies on hardcoded ASCII whitespaces instead of Py_ISSPACE. * string.whitespace is a list of "ASCII whitespace characters" carved in stone. As far as I can see string.whitespace is defined but not used anywhere in Python source code.
Therefore I suggest the documentation of Python 3 points to str.isspace() wherever the term "whitespace" is used in any documentation related to strings - including this specific case of strip()/lstrip()/rstrip(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25433> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
