Wishlist: string attributes

[Stephen Boulet]

Sounds great. I'm glad that people are working on it.

-- Stephen

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> "Stephen Boulet" <stephen.boulet at motorola.com> wrote in message
> news:3E807948.5040401 at motorola.com...
> 
>>Being a big fan of string methods, here's what I'd like to see for python
> 
> strings:
> 
>>I can access string methods like (str.lower) but I would like to be able
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> to
> 
>>access all string module attributes without importing the string module
> 
> (like
> 
>>str.ascii_lowercase, str.whitespace, etc.).
> 
> 
> The plan is to use functions like str.isascii() instead of attributes.
> I had already written the patch. The next step is to extend it so
> that parallel functions are available for Unicode.
> 
> 
> Raymond Hettinger