Added the constants ascii_letters, ascii_lowercase, and ascii_uppercase
to the string module. This was determined to be the right approach in
SF bug #226706.
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
index 38a0dbd..7e74c18 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libstring.tex
@@ -12,6 +12,22 @@
The constants defined in this module are:
+\begin{datadesc}{ascii_letters}
+ The concatenation of the \constant{ascii_lowercase} and
+ \constant{ascii_uppercase} constants described below. This value is
+ not locale-dependent.
+\end{datadesc}
+
+\begin{datadesc}{ascii_lowercase}
+ The lowercase letters \code{'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'}. This
+ value is not locale-dependent and will not change.
+\end{datadesc}
+
+\begin{datadesc}{ascii_uppercase}
+ The uppercase letters \code{'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'}. This
+ value is not locale-dependent and will not change.
+\end{datadesc}
+
\begin{datadesc}{digits}
The string \code{'0123456789'}.
\end{datadesc}
@@ -22,7 +38,9 @@
\begin{datadesc}{letters}
The concatenation of the strings \constant{lowercase} and
- \constant{uppercase} described below.
+ \constant{uppercase} described below. The specific value is
+ locale-dependent, and will be updated when
+ \function{locale.setlocale()} is called.
\end{datadesc}
\begin{datadesc}{lowercase}
@@ -30,7 +48,9 @@
letters. On most systems this is the string
\code{'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'}. Do not change its definition ---
the effect on the routines \function{upper()} and
- \function{swapcase()} is undefined.
+ \function{swapcase()} is undefined. The specific value is
+ locale-dependent, and will be updated when
+ \function{locale.setlocale()} is called.
\end{datadesc}
\begin{datadesc}{octdigits}
@@ -53,7 +73,9 @@
letters. On most systems this is the string
\code{'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'}. Do not change its definition ---
the effect on the routines \function{lower()} and
- \function{swapcase()} is undefined.
+ \function{swapcase()} is undefined. The specific value is
+ locale-dependent, and will be updated when
+ \function{locale.setlocale()} is called.
\end{datadesc}
\begin{datadesc}{whitespace}