May 30, 2002
6:49 a.m.
Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
I think all of the unicode methods should be added to 8-bit strings, even if they are just aliases for others (what's title case applied to Latin-1? I suppose same as upper case?).
So those would be locale dependent? (the Unicode ones are not).
Yes. isalpha() etc. for 8-bit strings are already locale dependent aren't they?
Yes, certainly. I'm just confirming, since this *is* a notable difference to Unicode strings.
BTW, how about deprecating strop while we're at it?
That seems acceptable to me, once string.py stops importing it. I wonder how much time after deprecating a builtin or extension module we should stop building it automatically in setup.py. Regards, Martin