Issue 4361: Docstring for "Lib/string.py" is outdated (original) (raw)

In rc3 also: The problem is partial update:

DESCRIPTION Public module variables:

whitespace -- a string containing all characters considered whitespace
lowercase -- a string containing all characters considered lowercase

letters uppercase -- a string containing all characters considered uppercase letters letters -- a string containing all characters considered letters ... DATA ascii_letters = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' ascii_lowercase = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' ascii_uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'

The latter is indeed correct:

dir(string) [..., 'ascii_letters', 'ascii_lowercase', 'ascii_uppercase', ...]