[Python-Dev] Re: String module

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Most of the constants already have a predicate companion:
> 
> whitespace -- isspace()
> lowercase -- islower()
> uppercase -- isupper()
> letters -- isalpha()
> digits -- isdigit()
> 
> That leaves:
> 
> hexdigits -- isxdigit()
> octdigits -- isodigit()
> punctuation -- ispunct()
> printable -- isprint()
> 
> Perhaps we should add isalnum, iscntrl, is graph, to match <ctype.h>?
> Or perhaps not?  (Maybe I'd also like to add isword(), which would be
> isalnum() or '_' -- this is the definition of \w in the re module.)

FYI, Unicode has these:

     {"islower", (PyCFunction) unicode_islower, METH_NOARGS, islower__doc__},
     {"isupper", (PyCFunction) unicode_isupper, METH_NOARGS, isupper__doc__},
     {"istitle", (PyCFunction) unicode_istitle, METH_NOARGS, istitle__doc__},
     {"isspace", (PyCFunction) unicode_isspace, METH_NOARGS, isspace__doc__},
     {"isdecimal", (PyCFunction) unicode_isdecimal, METH_NOARGS, isdecimal__doc__},
     {"isdigit", (PyCFunction) unicode_isdigit, METH_NOARGS, isdigit__doc__},
     {"isnumeric", (PyCFunction) unicode_isnumeric, METH_NOARGS, isnumeric__doc__},
     {"isalpha", (PyCFunction) unicode_isalpha, METH_NOARGS, isalpha__doc__},
     {"isalnum", (PyCFunction) unicode_isalnum, METH_NOARGS, isalnum__doc__},

Note that unlike for ASCII strings, the characters all have
defined categories.

Strings miss a few of these:

	{"islower", (PyCFunction)string_islower, METH_NOARGS, islower__doc__},
	{"isupper", (PyCFunction)string_isupper, METH_NOARGS, isupper__doc__},
	{"isspace", (PyCFunction)string_isspace, METH_NOARGS, isspace__doc__},
	{"isdigit", (PyCFunction)string_isdigit, METH_NOARGS, isdigit__doc__},
	{"istitle", (PyCFunction)string_istitle, METH_NOARGS, istitle__doc__},
	{"isalpha", (PyCFunction)string_isalpha, METH_NOARGS, isalpha__doc__},
	{"isalnum", (PyCFunction)string_isalnum, METH_NOARGS, isalnum__doc__},

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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