> On 2018 Jun 13 , at 4:43 p, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmic...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Le 13/06/2018 à 19:11, Mike Miller a écrit :
>>
>> On 2018-06-13 06:33, Michel Desmoulin wrote:
>>>
>>> I often wished for findall and sub to be string methods, so +1 on that.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed, and there are a few string functions that could be extended (to
>> take a sequence) to handle more cases that push folks to regex, perhaps
>> earlier than they should.
>
> str.replace come to mind. It's a annoying to have to chain it 5 times
> while we could pass optionally a tuple.
>
> several startswith() and endswith() require a loop, but we could make
> them accept *args.
Both accept a tuple. For example:
>>> "foo".startswith(("f", "b"))
True
>>> "bar".startswith(("f", "b"))
True
>
> Also, we do have to saturate the str namespace with all the re
> functions. We could decide to go for `str.re.stuff`.
Attaching an entire module to a type is probably worse than
adding a slew of extra methods to the type.
--
Clint
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