>>>>> "MAL" == M <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
>> + def _is8bitstring(s): + if isinstance(s, StringType): + try:
>> + unicode(s, 'us-ascii')
MAL> Note that 'ascii' will be faster since there are short-cuts
MAL> in the C code which map this directly to the ASCII codec.
Ah cool, thanks for the tip. I'll make that change.
>> + except UnicodeError: + return True + return False +
MAL> Since this kind of function occurs quite often in string
MAL> related code, wouldn't be better to code it in C and
MAL> publish it through e.g. the _codecs module ?!
Probably so, or something like it. I'll see if I can't factor out the
tests I tend to do and make a proposal.
-Barry
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