Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us>:
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:36:29PM -0400, 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?
One misgiving I had was locales; is it a bug or a feature that locales aren't supported, as they are for the C isdigit(), isalpha(), &c, functions? I'm not entirely sure which it is. (The locale module doesn't expose the C is*() functions, though I think they're used in constructing string.letters.)
It's a feature. That's why this module is called ascii, not string :-) -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> "...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." [...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.] -- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),