30 May
2002
30 May
'02
4:07 a.m.
Also, the data objects obviously have to be put somewhere. Before doing any of this, we need to decide where this stuff belongs. I doubt the technical effort involved will be too challenging.
So we don't need to make a decision today, right? We can delay that until those easy problems are solved.
What about my proposal to get rid of the data objects and add a few isxxx() methods instead? I don't think that the data objects have any other function except for membership testing, and a method can be faster. The method approach will also make locale-awareness easier (since the method can use <ctype.h> which is already locale-aware). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)