"Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > "Peter Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Where did you learn that, George? > > > > Actually I first read about this in the Cookbook; there are two or three > > recipes related to string.translate. As for string.maketrans, it > > doesn't do anything special for empty string arguments: ... > > I guess so. I was going to offer to suggest a new paragraph on that > usage for the docs, but as you and Jp both seem to think the behaviour > is obvious, I conclude "it's just me" so I suppose I shouldn't bother.
It's only obvious in the sense that _after_ you see this idiom, you can go back to the docs and realize it's not doing something special; OTOH if you haven't seen it, it's not at all the obvious solution to "how do I get the first 256 characters". So IMO it should be mentioned, given that string.translate often operates on the identity table. I think a single sentence is adequate for the reference docs. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
