Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I suggest adding the following to the string module's documentation > (rather than marking it as explicitly deprecated): > > This module exists for backwards compatibility only. It will > eventually be deprecated and its use should be avoided in new code. > > I also suggest that someone go through the standard library and get > rid of all uses of the string module. (What to do with string.letters > c.s.?) We will need some place to put constants and other non-method based string related functions (much like the Unicode database module which serves a similar purpose)... the ideal complement would be a stringdata module which provides the same interfaces as the unicodedata module if reasonably possible (we'd get into encoding problems again...) ! -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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