[Tutor] string.uppercase: too many for locale

[Barnaby Scott]

Can anyone explain the following: I was getting string.uppercase 
returning an unexpected number of characters, given that the Python Help 
says that it should normally be A-Z. Being locale-dependent, I checked 
that my locale was not set to something exotic, and sure enough it is 
only what I expected - see below:


IDLE 1.1      ==== No Subprocess ====
 >>> import locale, string
 >>> locale.getlocale()
['English_United Kingdom', '1252']
 >>> print string.uppercase
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZŠŒŽŸÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ
 >>> print string.lowercase
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzƒšœžßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ
 >>>

What am I missing here? Surely for UK English, I really should just be 
getting A-Z and a-z. In case it is relevant, the platform is Windows 2000.

Thanks

Barnaby Scott