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Mon Nov 10 09:25:06 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040145.html

Skip Montanaro writes:
 > Don't forget 'punctuation'.  Maybe it should be 'ascii_punctuation', since
 > I'm sure there are other punctuation characters which would turn up in
 > unicode.

Ah, yes.

 > If they are going to be attached to a class, why not to basestring?

That makes sense for ascii_* and *digits, perhaps.  whitespace and
punctuation definately change for Unicode, so it's less clear that the
values belong in a base class.

  -Fred

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