[Python-Dev] String module

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 31 May 2002 00:55:08 -0400


> Whu not 
> 
>   isgraph() --> is_visible()
>   iscntrl() --> is_control()
>   isprint() --> is_printable()
> 
> so "is" is more... visible?

Please no -- we already have islower() etc. without the _.  (And _ is
a pain to type.)

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