neal norwitz vapkwvjqgmailcom 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 n _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 040242 0500 pythondev difference diff string implementations