[Python-Dev] textwrap and unicode (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
22 Oct 2002 21:58:07 +0200

Greg Ward <gward@python.net> writes:

Here are the problems that I am aware of:

* textwrap assumes "whitespace" means "the characters in string.whitespace"

I don't know how precisely you want to formulate the property. If x is a Unicode letter, then x.isspace() tells you whether it is a space character (this property holds for all characters of the Zs category, and all characters that have a bidirectionality of WS, B, or S).

* textwrap assumes "lowercase letter" means "the characters in string.lowercase" (heck, this only works in English)

Works the same way: x.islower() tells you whether a character is lower-case (meaning it is in the Ll category).

HTH, Martin