text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg sat mar 15 2008 554 pm neal norwitz wrote inconsistency goes back 23 least probably initial unicode implementation setdiru setdir isnumeric isdecimal userstring contains two methods even though 8bit strings im sure 26 30 preference would remove methods unicodeuserstring arent useful large audience however removing 26 without deprecation seems bad suggestions looks like denote different character classes though id inclined keep status quo 26 inconsistency disappear 30 dont think need add bytes documented though guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 041749 0500 pythondev difference diff string implementations