It feels to me like "split on whitespace" or "remove whitespace" are quite common operations. I've been frustrated a number of times by settling for the ASCII whitespace class when I really wanted the Unicode whitespace class.
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 12:20 PM Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 15:09, Antonio Carlos Jorge Patricio > <antonio...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I suggest including a simple str variable in unicodedata module to mirror >> string.whitespace, so it would contain all characters defined in CPython >> function >> [_PyUnicode_IsWhitespace()](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/unicodetype_db.h#L6314) >> so that: >> >> # existent >> string.whitespace = ' \t\n\r\x0b\x0c' >> >> # proposed >> unicodedata.whitespace = ' >> \t\n\x0b\x0c\r\x1c\x1d\x1e\x1f\x85\xa0\u1680\u2000\u2001\u2002\u2003\u2004\u2005\u2006\u2007\u2008\u2009\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000' > > > What's the use case? I can't think of a single occasion when I would have > found this useful. > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/374AYVMYWOLB2Q3NH3NM6UMEBK6KIFSP/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OT7NREOQC4OHNXMFJCWCDOXBQ3Z34VXH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
