Karthikeyan Singaravelan <tir.kar...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Agreed, though str.isnumeric behavior might seem to be correct in terms of user who knows unicode internals the naming makes it easy to be used for a general user on trying to determine if the string can be used for int() without knowing unicode internals. I am not sure how this can be explained in simpler terms but it would be good if clarified in the docs to avoid confusion. There seems to be have been thread [0] in the past about multiple ways to check for a unicode literal to be number causing confusion. It adds more confusion on Python 2 where strings are not unicode by default. $ python2.7 Python 2.7.14 (default, Mar 12 2018, 13:54:56) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> '\u00B2'.isdigit() False >>> u'\u00B2'.isdigit() True [0] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-May/624340.html ---------- versions: -Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue36100> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
