[Python-ideas] isascii()/islatin1()/isbmp()

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> As shown in issue #15016 [1], there is a use cases when it is useful to
> determine that string can be encoded in ASCII or Latin1. In working with Tk
> or Windows console applications can be useful to determine that string can
> be encoded in UCS2. C API provides interface for this, but at Python level
> it is not available.
>
> I propose to add to strings class new methods: isascii(), islatin1() and
> isbmp() (in addition to such methods as isalpha() or isdigit()). The
> implementation will be trivial.

Why not just expose max_code_point directly instead of adding three new methods?

Cheers,
Nick.

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