Dave Mankoff <man...@gmail.com> added the comment: So I contacted the Unicode Technical Committee about the issue and received a promptly received a response back. They pointed that the ZWSP was, once upon a time considered white space but that was changed in Unicode 4.0.1
http://www.unicode.org/review/resolved-pri.html#pri21 One particular comment worth noting: "... for historical reasons the general category is still Zs (Space Separator)". Perhaps this ticket can be changed to a feature request? In addition to stripping out whitespace, it is useful to remove any non-printable characters from a string (or know if a string contains any non-printable characters). Perhaps a boolean keyword parameter, "control_chars" could be added to isspace and strip? Thus: >>> u' \t\r\n\u200B'.isspace(control_chars=True) True ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13391> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
