[Python-Dev] Re: String module

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I think all of the unicode methods should be added to 8-bit strings,
> > even if they are just aliases for others (what's title case applied to
> > Latin-1?  I suppose same as upper case?).
> 
> So those would be locale dependent? (the Unicode ones are not).

Yes.  isalpha() etc. for 8-bit strings are already locale dependent
aren't they?

BTW, how about deprecating strop while we're at it?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)