[Python-Dev] other "magic strings" issues
Raymond Hettinger
python at rcn.com
Fri Nov 7 14:04:51 EST 2003
> Ah gotcha. I'd definitely want to retain ascii_letters, probably
> ascii_lowercase and ascii_uppercase, digits, hexdigits, octdigits,
> punctuation, printable, and whitespace
Other than possibly upper and lower, the rest should be skipped and left
for tests like isdigit(). The tests are faster than the usual linear
search style of: if char in str.letters.
Raymond
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