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[Python-Dev] deprecating string module?

[Python-Dev] deprecating string module? [Python-Dev] deprecating string module?Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 30 May 2002 08:55:26 -0400
> > These "use cases"
> > don't convince me that there's a legitimate use case for
> > string.letters etc. that the methods don't cover.
> 
> This is funny. In the C++ community there's a nearly unanimous
> consensus that way too much of the functionality of the standard
> strings is expressed as member functions.

Interesting.  Python used to have the same attitude, hence the string
module -- but the existence of multiple string types made methods more
attractive.

What's the alternative proposed for C++?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)




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