u'a' in string.letters fails: a Python 2.3 bug?

[Edward K. Ream]

> > 1. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
>
> What you may be missing is that factors including but not limited to
> readline, the way python was invoked, orders of imports, locals
> settings and the phase of the moon may have an effect on whether
> "ordinals not in range(128)" get into string.letters.

Thanks for this info.  I wonder why string.letters remains.  Shouldn't it be
deprecated?

I've substituted string.ascii_letters for string.letters as a temporary
expedient, and will consider ch.isalpha() for future work.  Thanks again.

Edward
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