[Tutor] unicode: alpha, whitespaces and digits

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 09:58:10AM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> What gives you that impression? isspace works on Unicode strings too.
> 
> py> '   x'.isspace()
> False
> py> '    '.isspace()
> True

Oops, the above was copied and pasted from Python 3, which is why there 
are no u' prefixes. But it still holds in Python 2:

py> u'    '.isspace()
True
py> u'   x'.isspace()
False


Sorry for any confusion.


-- 
Steven