Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I disagree. It's expected that the function will return valid data. This 
> doesn't return valid data so isalpha() is compromised.

What is "valid data"? The function (isalpha) should return a boolean, 
and it does. So the result is certainly "valid".

The documentation says "For 8-bit strings, this method is 
locale-dependent." So it is correct if it returns what the OS vendor says
to return.

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