Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: Thanks you very much. We should fix the behavior in 3.3 for sure. I'm thinking that we may be able to backport the behavior fix to 2.7 and 3.2 as well, since it just makes the behavior generally "better" (and for most folks it won't matter anyway).
I'm not sure where the somewhat odd rules for .islower() come from, I think in part from the desire to have "".islower() be False but "a b".islower() to be True. Intuitively, this means that .islower() means both "there is at least one lower case character" and "there are no upper case characters", but not "all characters are lowercase". I forget what we do w.r.t. titlecase, but the intuitive meaning should not change. Although personally I don't have much of an intuition for what titlecase means (and why it's important), perhaps because I'm not familiar with any language where there is a third case for some letters. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12736> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
