[ I would appreciate not getting private copies as well. ] =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Before discussing the escape, I'd like to see a specification of > it first - what characters precisely would classify as "printing"?
For basic ASCII and locale-based testing, whatever isprint() says. Just as for isalpha(). For Unicode, whatever people agree! I use the criterion that it has a defined category that doesn't start with 'C' - which is what I think that most people will accept. Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
