Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > Martin, I think you meant to write "if w == 'A':". > Some very common characters have ambiguous widths though (e.g. the Greek > alphabet), so you can't just raise an error for them.
That's precisely why I don't think this should be in the library, but in the application. Application developers who need that also need to concern themselves with the border cases, and decide on how they need to resolve them. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12568> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
