Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment: The key requirement to consider for in POSIX compatible mode is, well, POSIX compatibility, which is defined in
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_03 Now, POSIX declares that what <blank> is depends on LC_CTYPE (character class blank). I'd argue that if the objective is to behave exactly like the shell, it really should be doing that (i.e. work in a locale-aware manner). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1170> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com