OK, fair enough. What about "has whitespace (including Unicode beyond ASCII)"?
On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 1:08 PM Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 at 02:27, David Mertz, Ph.D. <[email protected]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/CJB356TCUPJ7DITRHQE6NPJ2ILWGYXZY/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/OCEQ5W4QYO3AGNVNGNKXB2E3QFPZW3AO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
