[Python-ideas] Adding str.isascii() ?

Sat Jan 27 02:01:10 EST 2018

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 1/26/2018 8:27 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 02:37:14PM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote:
>>
>
> Really? I never required such check in practice. Would you mind to
>>> elaborate your use case?
>>>
>>
>> tcl/tk and Javascript only support UCS-2 (16 bit) Unicode strings.
>>
>
> Since IDLE is a tkinter application, it would be helpful if there were an
> isbmp function that exposed the existing flag in the string object.
>

Sorry, no. The existing internal flag is an implementation detail that
should not show in the API.

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