[I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] ascii.py?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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
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