On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:22:13 +0300, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Terry Reedy writes: >> On 8/27/2010 3:43 PM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> > Dave Angel writes: >> >> > There could easily be a .reverse() method on strings. It would return >> > the reversed string, like .swapcase() returns the swapcased string. >> >> Could be, but the main use case seems to be for palindrome testing ;-) >> Given that slicing and reversed() can do the same thing, the need is >> thin. > > The need is quite thin, but immutability of strings is not an issue, > just like there can be .swapcase() though strings are immutable. That is > all I am saying above.
You're right, there could be a reversed() method for strings. There could also be a disemvowel method that removes vowels, a randomise method that shuffles the letters around, a studlycaps method that changes the case of each letter randomly, and a method to check that brackets () are well- formed. They would all be useful to somebody. There are lots of different methods that strings could have. Where do you draw the line? Not everything needs to be a built-in method. There is already a standard way to spell "reverse a string": astring[::-1] If you don't like that, you can do this: ''.join(reversed(astring)) I don't object to a hypothetical reverse() method on strings, but the gain is minimal. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
