> I think these tests must fail on EBCDIC platform, since ord('a') is
> not 0x61 but 0x81 there.
Mea culpa. If anybody out there running z/OS could find a way to
become a smoker (PHBs notwithstanding), that would help nail stuff
like this, even if list members' eagle eyes don't catch it.
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Dominic Dunlop