[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Lib textwrap.py,1.18,1.19

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com> writes:

> > Weird.  What the heck is 0xa0 doing in string.whitespace?  Oh, waitasec,
> > 0xa0 is non-breaking-space in ISO-8859-1.  But no, string.whitespace is
> > hardcoded to the US-ASCII whitespace chars, all of which are in
> > range(128) -- your locale shouldn't matter.
[...]
>     /* Create 'whitespace' object */
>     n = 0;
>     for (c = 0; c < 256; c++) {
>         if (isspace(c))
>             buf[n++] = c;
>     }

Sure. But shouldn't Python/the-C-library startup in the "C" locale?

Is this another one of these Mac quirks?

Regards,
Martin