On Friday 07 November 2003 06:26 pm, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:05, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Yes, that would be good. Is there anything besides maketrans() in the > > string module worth saving? (IMO letters and digits etc. are not -- > > you can use s.isletter() etc. for that.) > > I'm not following, are you saying we don't need string.ascii_letters and > friends any more? I think we do, but I'd rather access them as str.ascii_letters myself. Or maybe we could use just letters, lowercase and uppercase as attribute names, implying the ascii_ -- people needing nonasciis might then still need to "import string", which in itself might be OK, but... that might be a bit too confusing overall. Anyway, I do have code that e.g. does "for c in string.ascii_lowercase: ...", and that is not as handily done with just the .islowercase method... Alex
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