[Python-Dev] other "magic strings" issues
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Mon Nov 10 09:25:06 EST 2003
Skip Montanaro writes:
> Don't forget 'punctuation'. Maybe it should be 'ascii_punctuation', since
> I'm sure there are other punctuation characters which would turn up in
> unicode.
Ah, yes.
> If they are going to be attached to a class, why not to basestring?
That makes sense for ascii_* and *digits, perhaps. whitespace and
punctuation definately change for Unicode, so it's less clear that the
values belong in a base class.
-Fred
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