Richard Mortier <rmm1002@users.sourceforge.net>:

Add the constants "printable" and "punctuation" to the string module.

Lib/string.py

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ letters = lowercase + uppercase
 digits = '0123456789'
 hexdigits = digits + 'abcdef' + 'ABCDEF'
 octdigits = '01234567'
+punctuaction = """!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~""" 
+printable = digits + letters + punctuation + whitespace
 
 # Case conversion helpers
 _idmap = ''