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Document that `string.printable` is not POSIX printable.
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Expand Up @@ -69,9 +69,8 @@ The constants defined in this module are:
.. note::

By design, :meth:`string.printable.isprintable() <str.isprintable>`
returns :const:`False`. In particular, ``string.printable`` is
neither POSIX printable (see :manpage:`LC_CTYPE <locale(5)>`)
nor printable in the sense of :rfc:`5822`.
returns :const:`False`. In particular, ``string.printable`` is not
printable in the POSIX sense (see :manpage:`LC_CTYPE <locale(5)>`).


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