Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us>:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 06:36:29PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >There has been a vast and echoing silence about the ascii.py module I
> >posted here at Fred Drake's request. Is it really such a bad idea?
>
> One misgiving I had was locales; is it a bug or a feature that locales
> aren't supported, as they are for the C isdigit(), isalpha(), &c,
> functions? I'm not entirely sure which it is. (The locale module
> doesn't expose the C is*() functions, though I think they're used in
> constructing string.letters.)
It's a feature. That's why this module is called ascii, not string :-)
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