On Thursday 17 May 2007, Nick Coghlan wrote: > To be honest, I have never understood the repeated proposals to get rid > of the string module. Get rid of the functions that are just duplicates > of str methods, sure, but the module makes sense to me as a home for > text related constants and other machinery (such as string.Template and > the various building blocks for more advanced PEP 3101 based formatting).
Agreed. I see no need to add another name to the stdlib as a place to store those values, and placing them on str doesn't seem particularly attractive (especially for 2.x). -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
