On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:02:25PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Dan Sommers wrote:
>
> >without_prefix
> >without_suffix
> >
> >They're a little longer, but IMO "without" helps
> >reenforce the immutability of the underlying string.
>
> We don't seem to worry about that distinction for other
> string methods, such as lstrip and rstrip.
Perhaps we ought to. In the spirit of today's date, let me propose
renaming existing string methods to be more explicit, e.g.:
str.new_string_in_uppercase
str.new_string_with_substrings_replaced
str.new_string_filled_to_the_given_length_with_zeroes_on_the_left
str.new_string_with_character_translations_not_natural_language_translations
The best thing is that there will no longer be any confusion as to
whether you are looking at a Unicode string or a byte-string:
a = a.new_string_trimmed_on_the_left()
a = a.new_bytes_trimmed_on_the_left()
*wink*
--
Steven
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