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- <section id="module-curses.ascii">
- <span id="curses-ascii-utilities-for-ascii-characters"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-curses.ascii" title="curses.ascii: Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">curses.ascii</span></code></a> — Utilities for ASCII characters<a class="headerlink" href="#module-curses.ascii" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
- <p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.12/Lib/curses/ascii.py">Lib/curses/ascii.py</a></p>
- <hr class="docutils" />
- <p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-curses.ascii" title="curses.ascii: Constants and set-membership functions for ASCII characters."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">curses.ascii</span></code></a> module supplies name constants for ASCII characters and
- functions to test membership in various ASCII character classes. The constants
- supplied are names for control characters as follows:</p>
- <table class="docutils align-default">
- <thead>
- <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Name</p></th>
- <th class="head"><p>Meaning</p></th>
- </tr>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.NUL">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">NUL</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.NUL" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.SOH">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SOH</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.SOH" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Start of heading, console interrupt</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.STX">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">STX</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.STX" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Start of text</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ETX">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ETX</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ETX" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>End of text</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.EOT">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">EOT</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.EOT" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>End of transmission</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ENQ">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ENQ</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ENQ" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Enquiry, goes with <a class="reference internal" href="#curses.ascii.ACK" title="curses.ascii.ACK"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ACK</span></code></a> flow control</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ACK">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ACK</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ACK" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Acknowledgement</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.BEL">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">BEL</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.BEL" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Bell</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.BS">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">BS</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.BS" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Backspace</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.TAB">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">TAB</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.TAB" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Tab</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.HT">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">HT</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.HT" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Alias for <a class="reference internal" href="#curses.ascii.TAB" title="curses.ascii.TAB"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TAB</span></code></a>: “Horizontal tab”</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.LF">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">LF</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.LF" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Line feed</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.NL">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">NL</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.NL" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Alias for <a class="reference internal" href="#curses.ascii.LF" title="curses.ascii.LF"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LF</span></code></a>: “New line”</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.VT">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">VT</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.VT" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Vertical tab</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.FF">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">FF</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.FF" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Form feed</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.CR">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CR</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.CR" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Carriage return</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.SO">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SO</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.SO" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Shift-out, begin alternate character set</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.SI">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SI</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.SI" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Shift-in, resume default character set</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.DLE">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DLE</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.DLE" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Data-link escape</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.DC1">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DC1</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.DC1" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>XON, for flow control</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.DC2">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DC2</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.DC2" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Device control 2, block-mode flow control</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.DC3">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DC3</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.DC3" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>XOFF, for flow control</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.DC4">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DC4</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.DC4" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Device control 4</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.NAK">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">NAK</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.NAK" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Negative acknowledgement</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.SYN">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SYN</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.SYN" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Synchronous idle</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ETB">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ETB</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ETB" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>End transmission block</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.CAN">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">CAN</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.CAN" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Cancel</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.EM">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">EM</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.EM" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>End of medium</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.SUB">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SUB</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.SUB" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Substitute</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ESC">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ESC</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ESC" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Escape</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.FS">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">FS</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.FS" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>File separator</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.GS">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">GS</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.GS" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Group separator</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.RS">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">RS</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.RS" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Record separator, block-mode terminator</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.US">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">US</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.US" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Unit separator</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-even"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.SP">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">SP</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.SP" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Space</p></td>
- </tr>
- <tr class="row-odd"><td><dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.DEL">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">DEL</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.DEL" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd></dd></dl>
-
- </td>
- <td><p>Delete</p></td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table>
- <p>Note that many of these have little practical significance in modern usage. The
- mnemonics derive from teleprinter conventions that predate digital computers.</p>
- <p>The module supplies the following functions, patterned on those in the standard
- C library:</p>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isalnum">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isalnum</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isalnum" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII alphanumeric character; it is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isalpha(c)</span> <span class="pre">or</span>
- <span class="pre">isdigit(c)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isalpha">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isalpha</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isalpha" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII alphabetic character; it is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isupper(c)</span> <span class="pre">or</span>
- <span class="pre">islower(c)</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isascii">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isascii</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isascii" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for a character value that fits in the 7-bit ASCII set.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isblank">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isblank</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isblank" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII whitespace character; space or horizontal tab.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.iscntrl">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">iscntrl</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.iscntrl" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII control character (in the range 0x00 to 0x1f or 0x7f).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isdigit">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isdigit</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isdigit" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII decimal digit, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'0'</span></code> through <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'9'</span></code>. This is equivalent
- to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">c</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">string.digits</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isgraph">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isgraph</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isgraph" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for ASCII any printable character except space.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.islower">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">islower</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.islower" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII lower-case character.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isprint">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isprint</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isprint" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for any ASCII printable character including space.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ispunct">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ispunct</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ispunct" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for any printable ASCII character which is not a space or an alphanumeric
- character.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isspace">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isspace</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isspace" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for ASCII white-space characters; space, line feed, carriage return, form
- feed, horizontal tab, vertical tab.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isupper">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isupper</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isupper" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII uppercase letter.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isxdigit">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isxdigit</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isxdigit" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII hexadecimal digit. This is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">c</span> <span class="pre">in</span>
- <span class="pre">string.hexdigits</span></code>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.isctrl">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">isctrl</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.isctrl" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for an ASCII control character (ordinal values 0 to 31).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ismeta">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ismeta</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ismeta" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Checks for a non-ASCII character (ordinal values 0x80 and above).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>These functions accept either integers or single-character strings; when the argument is a
- string, it is first converted using the built-in function <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#ord" title="ord"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ord()</span></code></a>.</p>
- <p>Note that all these functions check ordinal bit values derived from the
- character of the string you pass in; they do not actually know anything about
- the host machine’s character encoding.</p>
- <p>The following two functions take either a single-character string or integer
- byte value; they return a value of the same type.</p>
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ascii">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ascii</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ascii" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the ASCII value corresponding to the low 7 bits of <em>c</em>.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.ctrl">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">ctrl</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.ctrl" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the control character corresponding to the given character (the character
- bit value is bitwise-anded with 0x1f).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py function">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.alt">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">alt</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.alt" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return the 8-bit character corresponding to the given ASCII character (the
- character bit value is bitwise-ored with 0x80).</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <p>The following function takes either a single-character string or integer value;
- it returns a string.</p>
- <dl class="py function" id="index-0">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.unctrl">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">unctrl</span></span><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param"><span class="n"><span class="pre">c</span></span></em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.unctrl" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>Return a string representation of the ASCII character <em>c</em>. If <em>c</em> is printable,
- this string is the character itself. If the character is a control character
- (0x00–0x1f) the string consists of a caret (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'^'</span></code>) followed by the
- corresponding uppercase letter. If the character is an ASCII delete (0x7f) the
- string is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'^?'</span></code>. If the character has its meta bit (0x80) set, the meta bit
- is stripped, the preceding rules applied, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'!'</span></code> prepended to the result.</p>
- </dd></dl>
-
- <dl class="py data">
- <dt class="sig sig-object py" id="curses.ascii.controlnames">
- <span class="sig-prename descclassname"><span class="pre">curses.ascii.</span></span><span class="sig-name descname"><span class="pre">controlnames</span></span><a class="headerlink" href="#curses.ascii.controlnames" title="Link to this definition">¶</a></dt>
- <dd><p>A 33-element string array that contains the ASCII mnemonics for the thirty-two
- ASCII control characters from 0 (NUL) to 0x1f (US), in order, plus the mnemonic
- <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SP</span></code> for the space character.</p>
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