string module

[Phil Hystad]

"marduk" <marduk at python.net> wrote in message
news:1021857810.1956.15.camel at berkowitz...
> On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:43, Phil Hystad wrote:
> > I have python on linux (suse) and the string.uppercase and
string.lowercase
> > values are a bit strange.
> >
> > For example, string.uppercase has the following values:
> >
> > ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ\xC0\xC1\xC2....\xCde
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > Is this a garbled module or a feature?
>
> It's Unicode.
>
> --m
>

Unicode?

Certainly it is not Unicode, these are characters, they are not 16-bit
elements of Unicode.