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Mon Nov 10 11:01:48 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040150.html

Dan Sugalski writes:
 > Digits change for Unicode as well. Plus they get potentially...
 > interesting in some cases, where the digit-ness of a character is arguably
 > contextually driven, but I think that can be ignored. Most of the time, at
 > least.

That depends on how we define "digits" for this purpose.  I've always
thought of the *digits strings as true constants; other may disagree.

I understand that the digit-ness of a Unicode character is defined in
more interesting ways than simply the ASCII characters 0-9.

  -Fred

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