title: Python isalpha() and scandics
body: <p>Is there a way to have python isalpha method understand scandics? I have tried the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; import locale
  &gt;&gt;&gt; locale.getlocale()
  (None, None)
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 'thisistext'.isalpha()
  True
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 'äöå'.isalpha()
  False
  &gt;&gt;&gt; locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL,"")
  'Finnish_Finland.1252'
  &gt;&gt;&gt; locale.getlocale()
  ('Finnish_Finland', '1252')
  &gt;&gt;&gt; 'äöå'.isalpha()
  False
  </code></pre>