On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:02:44AM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > > "Brett Cannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I wouldn't want it added without ditching the other two versions as > > well. Personally I would be fine if string.join() stayed and we > > considered removing str.join() and just made the string module more > > prominent (after removing all the deprecated stuff). > -1 > Get rid of the string module instead. I consider str.join an advance. Had > trouble remembering arg order of string.join, never do with str.join or > actual <string>.join. >
I use string.ascii_letters and string.printable() occasionally. Many of those members could be dropped though (atoi, lowercase, etc) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import string >>> set(dir(string)) - set(dir(str)) set(['ascii_lowercase', '_re', 'letters', 'uppercase', 'ascii_letters', 'capwords', 'index_error', 'Template', 'ascii_uppercase', 'octdigits', '_idmapL', '_int', '_float', 'atol_error', '__builtins__', 'splitfields', 'punctuation', '_multimap', 'joinfields', 'printable', '__file__', 'atof_error', 'atoi', 'hexdigits', 'atol', '__name__', 'atof', 'whitespace', 'digits', 'lowercase', '_long', 'atoi_error', 'maketrans', '_TemplateMetaclass', '_idmap']) >>> -Jack _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
