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Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output...

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On 4/29/2016 6:29 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> If isupper/islower were perfect opposites of each-other, there'd be no 
> need for both. But since characters can be upper, lower, or *neither*, 
> you run into this situation.

Based upon the official documentation, I was expecting perfect opposites.

str.islower(): "Return true if all cased characters [4] in the string 
are lowercase and there is at least one cased character, false otherwise."

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=islower#str.islower

str.isupper(): "Return true if all cased characters [4] in the string 
are uppercase and there is at least one cased character, false otherwise."

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=isupper#str.isupper

Here's the footnote that may or not be relevant to this discussion: "[4] 
Cased characters are those with general category property being one of 
“Lu” (Letter, uppercase), “Ll” (Letter, lowercase), or “Lt” (Letter, 
titlecase)."

A bug in the docs?

Thank you,

Chris R.

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Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer@icloud.com> - 2016-04-29 18:55 -0700
  Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list   output... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-04-30 17:47 +1200
  Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... pavlovevidence@gmail.com - 2016-05-03 03:00 -0700
    Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 20:25 +1000
      Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-03 14:25 +0300
        Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 22:00 +1000
          Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-03 09:01 -0400
            Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 23:13 +1000
              Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-03 09:19 -0400
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 23:23 +1000
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-03 17:49 +0300
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-03 11:12 -0400
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-03 18:27 +0300
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 15:42 +0000
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-05-03 12:37 -0400
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-04 13:28 +1000
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-04 10:09 -0400
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-05-05 00:37 +1000
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-05 01:37 +1000
                Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2016-05-04 17:05 -0400
          Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulainen@helsinki.fi> - 2016-05-03 17:42 +0300
            Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-04 11:30 +1000
            Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2016-05-04 20:34 +1200
              Re: Not x.islower() has different output than x.isupper() in list output... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-04 19:06 +1000

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