Paul Prescod wrote:
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
There has been a vast and echoing silence about the ascii.py module I posted here at Fred Drake's request. Is it really such a bad idea?
Without looking closely, or even being particularly knowledgable (how's that for a disclaimer!) my instinctive reaction was: "does the ASCII subset of Unicode need its own module just before we add Unicode to the language?"
It may be that there are some semantics of ASCII that are not captured in the Unicode spec. and thus are not generalizable. I'm pretty confident that these ones ARE generalizable:
isalnum isalpha isascii islower isupper isspace isxdigit
How do Unicode users get this information from the famous Unicode database and why not merge the Unicode and ASCII versions in 1.6?
Note that many of the above are already implemented as string|Unicode methods. The Unicode database is accessible via the unicodedata module. The specs for the used APIs and constants can be found in the Unicode database description file on www.unicode.org. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/