On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:42 AM, INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Currently, int(), str.isdigit(), str.isalnum(), etc... accepts
> non-ASCII strings.
>
> >>> s = １２３"
> >>> s
> '１２３'
> >>> s.isdigit()
> True
> >>> print(ascii(s))
> '\uff11\uff12\uff13'
> >>> int(s)
> 123
>
> But sometimes, we want to accept only ascii string. For example,
> ipaddress module uses:
>
> _DECIMAL_DIGITS = frozenset('0123456789')
> ...
> if _DECIMAL_DIGITS.issuperset(str):
>
> ref: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/e76daebc0c8afa3981a4c5a8b54537
> f756e805de/Lib/ipaddress.py#L491-L494
>
> If str has str.isascii() method, it can be simpler:
>
> `if s.isascii() and s.isdigit():`
>
> I want to add it in Python 3.7 if there are no opposite opinions.
>
That's fine with me. Please also add it to bytes and bytearray objects.
It's okay if the implementation has to scan the string -- so do isdigit()
etc.
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