[I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] ascii.py?
M.-A. Lemburg
mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 02 Jun 2000 10:02:35 +0200
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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