[Python-Dev] Regular expressions, Unicode etc.

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 10 02:28:49 CEST 2007


Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> I know the term "printable character", which is what I read
> in definitions of the isprint() routine. "printing character"
> I never heard before.

Hmmm... I guess this means your brain is using a
part-of-speech-sensitive word->technical_meaning
mapping.

Perhaps this will be fixed in English 3.0...

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