[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: add str.casefold() (closes #13752)

[Éric Araujo]

Hi,

> changeset:   d4669f43d05f
> user:        Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> date:        Sat Jan 14 13:23:30 2012 -0500
> summary:
>   add str.casefold() (closes #13752)

> diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
> --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
> +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
> @@ -1002,6 +1002,14 @@
>     rest lowercased.
>
>
> +.. method:: str.casefold()
> +
> +   Return a casefolded copy of the string. Casefolded strings may be 
> used for
> +   caseless matching. For example, ``"MASSE".casefold() == 
> "maße".casefold()``.
> +
> +   .. versionadded:: 3.3

I think this method requires at least a link to relevant definitions
(Unicode website or Wikipedia), and at best a bit more explanation (for
example, it is not locale-dependent, even though the example above is
only meaningful for German).

Cheers