From: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:33:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document unicode.isnumeric() and unicode.isdecimal() (issue2326)
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Document unicode.isnumeric() and unicode.isdecimal() (issue2326)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index f14c71bcea..e967c26d90 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1082,6 +1082,22 @@ string functions based on regular expressions.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.2.2
 
+The following methods are present only on unicode objects:
+
+.. method:: unicode.isnumeric()
+
+   Return ``True`` if there are only numeric characters in S, ``False``
+   otherwise. Numeric characters include digit characters, and all characters
+   that have the Unicode numeric value property, e.g. U+2155,
+   VULGAR FRACTION ONE FIFTH.
+   
+.. method:: unicode.isdecimal()
+
+   Return ``True`` if there are only decimal characters in S, ``False``
+   otherwise. Decimal characters include digit characters, and all characters
+   that that can be used to form decimal-radix numbers, e.g. U+0660,
+   ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO.
+
 
 .. _string-formatting: