From bd8b360bc507df659c11b8062397978dea0b56e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Cauet <bruno.cauet@dolead.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:18:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix string.printable: respect POSIX spec

Remove non-space whitespace chars from string.printable
---
 Lib/string.py           | 4 ++--
 Lib/test/test_string.py | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/string.py b/Lib/string.py
index 72a09f7..d627337 100644
--- a/Lib/string.py
+++ b/Lib/string.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ digits -- a string containing all ASCII decimal digits
 hexdigits -- a string containing all ASCII hexadecimal digits
 octdigits -- a string containing all ASCII octal digits
 punctuation -- a string containing all ASCII punctuation characters
-printable -- a string containing all ASCII characters considered printable
+printable -- a string containing all ASCII characters considered printable by POSIX
 
 """
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ digits = '0123456789'
 hexdigits = digits + 'abcdef' + 'ABCDEF'
 octdigits = '01234567'
 punctuation = """!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~"""
-printable = digits + ascii_letters + punctuation + whitespace
+printable = digits + ascii_letters + punctuation + ' '
 
 # Functions which aren't available as string methods.
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_string.py b/Lib/test/test_string.py
index 3e65071..ba8e8b6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_string.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_string.py
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ class ModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
             fmt._vformat("{i}", args, kwargs, set(), -1)
         self.assertIn("recursion", str(err.exception))
 
+    def test_printable(self):
+        self.assertTrue(string.printable.isprintable())
+
 
 def test_main():
     support.run_unittest(ModuleTest)
-- 
2.1.3