[Python-3000] string module trimming

[Guido van Rossum]

On 4/17/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> Certainly it makes sense to keep the ascii_* constants.  The docs say
> letters and lowercase are locale-aware, so I guess it makes sense to
> keep those too.

Really? Remember that Py3k won't be using the locale for anything
character/string-related -- strings will all be unicode and the
islower() methods and friends just use the Unicode database.

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