Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: > > In 2.6, there was a manually maintained list, probably dating back to before > Unicode 4.0.
That's not quite correct: Python 1.6.x - 2.5.x used tables for the PyUnicode_ISSPACE() function that were created from the Unicode database. Python 2.6.x introduced a short-cut table for ASCII whitespace, but still reverted back to the generated tables for non-ASCII code points. The tables were never manually maintained, but we also did not update Python for each new Unicode version: Python 1.6: Unicode 3.0 Python 2.0: Unicode 3.0 Python 2.1: Unicode 3.0 Python 2.2: Unicode 3.0 Python 2.3: Unicode 3.2 Python 2.4: Unicode 3.2 Python 2.5: Unicode 4.1 Python 2.6: Unicode 5.1 Python 2.7: Unicode 5.2 > Python uses the following criterion for determining white space characters: > > /* Returns 1 for Unicode characters having the bidirectional type > 'WS', 'B' or 'S' or the category 'Zs', 0 otherwise. */ This definition has been used since Python 1.6.x. ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10567> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
