Use string.ascii_letters instead of string.letters (SF bug #226706).

freddrake · freddrake · commit cd694c44a91f · 2001-07-20T18:58:42.000Z
Move computation of sets of characters out of the body of the function that
uses them.
diff --git a/Tools/idle/PyShell.py b/Tools/idle/PyShell.py
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ def linecache_checkcache(orig_checkcache=linecache.checkcache):
 linecache.checkcache = linecache_checkcache
 
 
+IDENTCHARS = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + "_"
+
+
 # Note: <<newline-and-indent>> event is defined in AutoIndent.py
 
 #$ event <<plain-newline-and-indent>>
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ def showsyntaxerror(self, filename=None):
         text.tag_add("ERROR", pos)
         text.see(pos)
         char = text.get(pos)
-        if char and char in string.letters + string.digits + "_":
+        if char and char in IDENTCHARS:
             text.tag_add("ERROR", pos + " wordstart", pos)
         self.tkconsole.resetoutput()
         self.write("SyntaxError: %s\n" % str(msg))
diff --git a/Tools/modulator/modulator.py b/Tools/modulator/modulator.py
@@ -30,13 +30,16 @@
 
 oops = 'oops'
 
+IDENTSTARTCHARS = string.ascii_letters + '_'
+IDENTCHARS = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_'
+
 # Check that string is a legal C identifier
 def checkid(str):
     if not str: return 0
-    if not str[0] in string.letters+'_':
+    if not str[0] in IDENTSTARTCHARS:
         return 0
     for c in str[1:]:
-        if not c in string.letters+string.digits+'_':
+        if not c in IDENTCHARS:
             return 0
     return 1
 
