> > I don't think that the data objects have any other function except > > for membership testing, and a method can be faster. > > That is not true. Asking google for "string.letters" brings, as the > first hit, > > non_letters = string.translate(norm, norm, string.letters) > > I also found > > random.choice(string.lowercase[:26] + string.uppercase[:26] + string.digits) > > This is, of course, nonsense, since it tries to "unlocalize" > string.lowercase, where a string literal would have been > better. > > I'm sure people have found other uses for these constants. That just shows we have to be very slow before we remove the string module. I think "not until 3.0" is slow enough. These "use cases" don't convince me that there's a legitimate use case for string.letters etc. that the methods don't cover. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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