> Wasn't unicodedata.ascii_letters suggested at one point (to eliminate > the string module), or was that my imagination?
Not sure - I don't recall such a proposal. > IMO, if there is a need for unicode or locale letters, we should > provide a function to generate them as needed. It can be passed > directly to set or whatever datastructure is actually needed. We > shouldn't burden the startup cost with such a large datastructure > unless absolutely necessary (nor should we use a property to load it > when first needed; expensive to compute attribute and all that). Exactly my feelings. Still, people seem to like string.letters a lot, and I'm unsure as to why that is. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
