On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:31:32 +0200 ezio.melotti <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/06b30c5bcc3d changeset: 72035:06b30c5bcc3d branch: 3.2 parent: 72026:c8e73a89150e user: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> date: Mon Aug 22 14:08:38 2011 +0300 summary: #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP characters even in narrow Unicode builds.

That's a very cool improvement! cheers Antoine.