OK, fair enough. What about "has whitespace (including Unicode beyond ASCII)"?
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 1:08 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 02:27, David Mertz, Ph.D. <david.me...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It feels to me like "split on whitespace" or "remove whitespace" are
> > quite common operations. I've been frustrated a number of times by
> > settling for the ASCII whitespace class when I really wanted the
> > Unicode whitespace class.
> >
>
> They are indeed, quite common. It's a good thing Python makes those easy.
>
> >>> len("\u2000spam\u2001".strip())
> 4
> >>> "spam\u2002ham".split()
> ['spam', 'ham']
>
> ChrisA
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