Shouldn't isnumeric and isdecimal apply to 8-bit strings as well? Are there
localization issues with them that I'm blissfully unaware of? why not just
add the methods there for consistency instead?
-gps
On 3/15/08, Neal Norwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This inconsistency goes back to 2.3 at least and probably to the
> initial unicode implementation.
>
> >>> set(dir(u'')) - set(dir(''))
> ['isnumeric', 'isdecimal']
>
> UserString contains these two methods even though 8-bit strings do
> not. I'm not sure what we should do for 2.6 or 3.0. My preference
> would be to remove these methods on unicode/UserString if they aren't
> useful to a large audience. However, removing for 2.6 without a
> deprecation seems bad.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> n
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