[Patches] [ python-Patches-561832 ] Class attributes for string object

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Patches item #561832, was opened at 2002-05-29 02:24
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Category: Core (C code)
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Thomas Heller (theller)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Class attributes for string object

Initial Comment:
This patch attaches the following class attributes to 
stringobject:
whitespace, lowercase, ascii_lowercase, uppercase, 
ascii_uppercase, letters, ascii_letters, digits, hexdigits, 
octdigits, punctuation, printable.

The implementation is nearly trivial, OTOH I didn't find a 
place where PyString_Type is initialized, so I did it lazily 
in the tp_getattro function.

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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2002-05-29 11:51

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I understand that these are being put in to provide 
alternatives to the string module but  had always thought 
they should have been mappings rather that strings.  Is 
now a good time to make the switch before this all gets 
set in stone?

if c not in str.printable: c='*'  # works faster as a mapping


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