[Python-Dev] String module

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > Someone commented that isxdigit is a poor name.  OTOH it's what C
> > uses.  I'm not sure what to say.

Obviously, it refers to the ex-digits, once honoured and respected
along with the other ten Arabic numerals but now long since neglected.
This includes, for example, I, V, and X, the first nine Greek letters
(supported if the argument is a Unicode string), and so on.


-- ?!ng