[Python-Dev] other "magic strings" issues
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake at acm.org
Mon Nov 10 11:01:48 EST 2003
Dan Sugalski writes:
> Digits change for Unicode as well. Plus they get potentially...
> interesting in some cases, where the digit-ness of a character is arguably
> contextually driven, but I think that can be ignored. Most of the time, at
> least.
That depends on how we define "digits" for this purpose. I've always
thought of the *digits strings as true constants; other may disagree.
I understand that the digit-ness of a Unicode character is defined in
more interesting ways than simply the ASCII characters 0-9.
-Fred
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