Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output...

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:00 PM,  <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What you should have been expecting is a symmetry.  Say you have a string G.  islower(G) will return a certain result.  Now take every letter in G and swap the case, and call that string g.  isupper(g) will always return the same result is islower(G).
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> More succinctly, for any string x, the following is always ture:
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> islower(x) == isupper(swapcase(x))
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> But that is not the same thing, and does not imply, as the following identity (which it turns out is not always true, as we've seen):
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> islower(x) == not isupper(x)
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> Another example of functions that behave like this are ispositive and isnegative.  The identity "ispositive(x) == isnegative(-x)" is always true.  However, "ispositive(x) == not isnegative(x)" is false if x == 0.
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This assumes, of course, that there is a function swapcase which can
return a string with case inverted. I'm not sure such a function
exists.

ChrisA