Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
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?
That's a good thing to do, I agree.
I don't think that the data objects have any other function except for membership testing, and a method can be faster.
That is not true. Asking google for "string.letters" brings, as the first hit, non_letters = string.translate(norm, norm, string.letters) I also found random.choice(string.lowercase[:26] + string.uppercase[:26] + string.digits) This is, of course, nonsense, since it tries to "unlocalize" string.lowercase, where a string literal would have been better. I'm sure people have found other uses for these constants. Regards, Martin