Stephan Houben wrote:
To be honest, quite apart from the Unicode issue, I never had a need to
reverse a string in real code.
Yeah, seems to me it would only be useful if you were working
on some kind of word game such as a palindrome generator, or
if your string represents something other than
On 9/8/18 4:55 PM, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Improving a rendering engine or console so it's capable of correct RTL
>> display is outside the scope of Python code, generally.
> I agree with you, generally.
>
> But there are over 600 million people who speak a RTL language. A
On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:55 AM, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Improving a rendering engine or console so it's capable of correct RTL
>> display is outside the scope of Python code, generally.
>
> I agree with you, generally.
>
> But there are over 600 million people who speak a
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Improving a rendering engine or console so it's capable of correct RTL
> display is outside the scope of Python code, generally.
I agree with you, generally.
But there are over 600 million people who speak a RTL language. About
12% of the world's population. I'd like Pyth
On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:08 AM, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Generally, problems with RTL text are *display* problems, and are not
>> solved by reversing strings.
>
> I very much agree with this statement, with one exception. If you wish
> to display RTL text on a LTR display,
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Generally, problems with RTL text are *display* problems, and are not
> solved by reversing strings.
I very much agree with this statement, with one exception. If you wish
to display RTL text on a LTR display, then a suitable reversing of
strings is probably part of the so
On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>
>> Most likely yes, but they would not render RTL text by first
>> switching the direction and then printing them LTR again.
>>
>> Please also note that switching from LTR to RTL and back again
>> is possible within a U
Please involve those with more knowledge on the subject. Thanks.
On Saturday, 8 September 2018 13:13:05 UTC+1, Jonathan Fine wrote:
>
> Paddy wrote
>
> > 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
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Most likely yes, but they would not render RTL text by first
> switching the direction and then printing them LTR again.
>
> Please also note that switching from LTR to RTL and back again
> is possible within a Unicode string, so applying str.reverse()
> would actually make
On 08.09.2018 15:00, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> Stephan Houben wrote:
>
>> To be honest, quite apart from the Unicode issue, I never had a need to
>> reverse a string in real code.
>>
>> .ytilibigel edepmi ot sdnet yllareneg tI
>
> Sometimes we have to write 'backwards' to improve legibility. Odd
> t
Stephan Houben wrote:
> To be honest, quite apart from the Unicode issue, I never had a need to
> reverse a string in real code.
>
> .ytilibigel edepmi ot sdnet yllareneg tI
Sometimes we have to write 'backwards' to improve legibility. Odd
though that may sound.
Some languages are written from l
Op za 8 sep. 2018 13:33 schreef Paddy3118 :
>
> 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!*
>
To be honest, quite apart from
Paddy wrote
> 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!
Excellent post and piece of work. Well done!
Here's someone who might k
13 matches
Mail list logo
