Jon Crump wrote:
>
> Kent, Many thanks again, and thanks too to Paul at
> http://tinyurl.com/yrl8cy.
>
> That's very effective, thanks very much for the detailed explanation;
> however, I'm a little surprised that it's necessary. I would have
> thought that there would be some standard module that included a unicode
> equivalent of the builtin method isupper().
Hmm...actually, isupper() works fine on unicode strings:
In [18]: s='H\303\211RON'.decode('utf-8')
In [21]: print 'H\303\211RON'
HÉRON
In [22]: s.isupper()
Out[22]: True
:-)
> I modified uppers to include only the latin characters, and added the
> apostrophe to catch placenames like L'ISLE.
Then you are back to needing a regular expression I think.
Kent
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