Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Marc-Andre Lemburg
<rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
..
> I don't think we should change that for the formatting methods.
That's a reasonable position. What about
>>> unicodedata.category('\N{OLD ITALIC LETTER A}')
'Lo'
>>> '\N{OLD ITALIC LETTER A}'.isalpha()
False
the str.isalpha() method is underspecified in the reference manual,
but a comment in unicodectype.c describes Py_UNICODE_ISALPHA as
follows:
/* Returns 1 for Unicode characters having the category 'Ll', 'Lu',
'Lt',
'Lo' or 'Lm', 0 otherwise. */
I don't have a wide build handy, but I am fairly sure '\N{OLD ITALIC
LETTER A}'.isalpha() would produce True there. The result above is
simply consequence of surrogates considered to be non-letters:
>>> [c.isalpha() for c in '\N{OLD ITALIC LETTER A}']
[False, False]
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