[issue3502] Inconsistency between string.letters and default encoding.

2008-08-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: That's a bug in the Win32 extensions. They shouldn't use string.letters, but string.ascii_letters, in particular when they check for valid identifier chars. Closing this report as "won't fix". -- nosy: +loewis resolution: -> wont f

[issue3502] Inconsistency between string.letters and default encoding.

2008-08-04 Thread Ramon Garcia
New submission from Ramon Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In python on Windows, under Idle, the string.letters includes extended characters. But the default codec, used when translating from string to unicode, is still ascii. This behaviour causes crashes with python win32 extensions. >>> string.let