nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom mark dickinson wrote hand theres least sense bytes already acts sort poormans string witness byteslower friends maybe practicality beats purity pep 358 describing bytearray note conspicuous absence isupper upper friends see open issues __hash__ object mutable open issue case could even made supporting islower isupper isspace isalpha isalnum isdigit corresponding conversions lower etc using ascii definitions letters digits whitespace accepted cases ljust rjust center split become much stronger default arguments well using ascii space ascii whitespace split pep 3157 resolved open issue follows exactly set methods present str type python 2x exclusion encode signatures semantics however whenever character classes like letter whitespace lower case used ascii definitions classes used seems fairly explicit saying bytes bytearray object considered ascii encoded treated string cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 013617 1000 python3000 int float accept bytes