[New-bugs-announce] [issue5126] Space character returns false from isprintable() method

[dlfjessup]

New submission from dlfjessup <dljessup at gmail.com>:

I am running IDLE on Windows XP.  The version information when IDLE
boots is:

Python 3.0 (r30:67507, Dec  3 2008, 20:14:27) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
(Intel)] on win32

I ran the following test case:

    >>> ' '.isprintable()
    False

However, according to
http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/stdtypes.htm#str.isprintable, "...the
ASCII space (0x20) ... is considered printable."

This seems pretty broken to me.

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messages: 80919
nosy: dlfjessup
severity: normal
status: open
title: Space character returns false from isprintable() method
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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