Natalie Amery <phq...@fyvzl.net> added the comment:
https://bugs.python.org/issue25433 has a summary of the issue about what actually constitutes whitespace from the perspective of improving the documentation. In terms of what strip does it turns out that string.whitespace is a red herring. A list of whitespace characters _could_ be produced at runtime using str.isspace() but that would require iterating over the entire space of characters; which is likely to be slow as well as poor style. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39418> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
