From 0f715d2aa119d0391dd50919c04bfaa8a4452cf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:53:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use string.ascii_letters instead of string.letters (SF bug
 #226706). Work-around a font-lock bogosity.

---
 Lib/pipes.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Lib/pipes.py b/Lib/pipes.py
index aaad0ebd11b..1e164352844 100644
--- a/Lib/pipes.py
+++ b/Lib/pipes.py
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 The problem:
 ------------
 
-Suppose you have some data that you want to convert to another format
-(e.g. from GIF image format to PPM image format).  Maybe the
+Suppose you have some data that you want to convert to another format,
+such as from GIF image format to PPM image format.  Maybe the
 conversion involves several steps (e.g. piping it through compress or
 uuencode).  Some of the conversion steps may require that their input
 is a disk file, others may be able to read standard input; similar for
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ def makepipeline(infile, steps, outfile):
 
 # Reliably quote a string as a single argument for /bin/sh
 
-_safechars = string.letters + string.digits + '!@%_-+=:,./'     # Safe unquoted
+_safechars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '!@%_-+=:,./' # Safe unquoted
 _funnychars = '"`$\\'                           # Unsafe inside "double quotes"
 
 def quote(file):