[Tutor] filtering within a function.

[Tesla Coil]

On 12 Mar 2001, D-Man replied:
> Maybe.  Are you using some interesting locales or something?
>
> Here:
>
> Python 2.0 (#18, Oct 31 2000, 13:55:49) [C] on sunos5
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import string
> >>> len( string.uppercase )
> 26
> >>> print string.uppercase
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
> >>>

Hmmm...

Python 2.0 (#1, Oct 16 2000, 18:10:03)=20
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import string, sys
>>> len(string.uppercase)
56
>>> print string.uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ=C0=C1=C2=C3=C4=C5=C6=C7=C8=C9=CA=CB=CC=CD=CE=CF=
=D0=D1=D2=D3=D4=D5=D6=D8=D9=DA=DB=DC=DD=DE
>>> sys.path
['', '/mnt/usr/local/lib/python2.0',
'/mnt/usr/local/lib/python2.0/plat-linux2',
'/mnt/usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-tk',
'/mnt/usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-dynload',
'/mnt/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages',
'/mnt/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/PIL']
>>>=20


Python 1.5.2 (#1, Aug 25 2000, 09:33:37) =20
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (experimental)] on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import string, sys
>>> len(string.uppercase
... )
56
>>> print string.uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ=C0=C1=C2=C3=C4=C5=C6=C7=C8=C9=CA=CB=CC=CD=CE=CF=
=D0=D1=D2=D3=D4=D5=D6=D8=D9=DA=DB=DC=DD=DE
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python1.5/',
'/usr/lib/python1.5/plat-linux-i386',=20
'/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk',
'/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload',
'/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages']