Thomas Wouters wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 10:14:54PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Jack Jansen wrote: > > > > On the Macintosh string.whitespace is '\011\012\013\014\015 \312', but > > > the \312 causes problems because it can't be converted from/to unicode > > > as long as the default encoding is ascii... > > > string.py is depreciated -- please use string methods instead. > > You mean 'deprecated'. Hmm, my Webster says "to lessen in value" -- that's what I had in mind... > And please wait with deprecating string.py until all > functionality is indeed available through string methods. And please don't > do that :) I don't think " ".letters really makes sense... "Depreciated" means that you should not use it in new code -- perhaps someday string.py will disappear, even though I doubt that. > Besides, 'string.join' is a good compromise for the people who > don't like " ".join() Tim Peters will have to take the blame for this one ;-) I don't find delimiter.join(sequence) awkward or funny -- using methods for this has added value: it defines an interface which other objects could support as well and thus makes your code polymorph. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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