On 08.09.2018 13:33, Paddy3118 wrote: > I wrote a blog post > <http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2009/07/case-of-disappearing-over-bar.html>nearly > a decade ago on extending a Rosetta Code task example > <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string>to handle the correct > reversal of strings with combining characters. > On checking my blog statistics today I found that it still had a > readership and revisited the code > <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string#Python:_Unicode_reversal> > (and updated it to Python3.6).. > > I found that amongst the nearly 200 languages that complete the RC > task,there were a smattering of languages that correctly handled > reversing strings having Unicode combining characters, > including Perl 6 <http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reverse_a_string#Perl_6> > which uses flip. > > I would like to propose that Python add a Unicode-aware *str.reverse > *method. The problem is, I'm a Brit, who only speaks English and only > very rarely dips into Unicode./I don't know how useful this would be!/
I've been using Unicode for quite a while and so far never had a need to reverse a string in real life. This sometimes comes up as coding challenge and perhaps in language classes as exercise, but I can hardly imaging a use case where we'd need a builtin method for this. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Sep 08 2018) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
