Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Ideally, I would like to deprecate the entire string module, so that I > can place a single warning at its top. This will cause a single > warning to be issued for programs that still use it (no matter how > many times it is imported). Unfortunately, there are a couple of > things that still need it: string.letters etc., and > string.maketrans(). Can't we come up with a module similar to unicodedata[.py] ? string.py could then still provide the interfaces, but the implementation would live in stringdata.py [Perhaps we won't need stringdata by then... Unicode will have taken over and the discussion be mood ;-)] -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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