On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:13:02 +0200, Peter Kleiweg wrote: > Here is another "space": > > >>> u'\uFEFF'.isspace() > False > > isspace() is inconsistent Well, U+00A0 is in the category "Separator, Space" while U+FEFF is in the category "Other, Format", so it doesn't seem unreasonable that one is treated as a space and the other isn't.