[Patches] moving acknowledgements from docstrings to comments

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> 
> >>>>> "GH" == Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>     GH> It also changes string.index(opt, '=') to opt.index('=').
> 
> Actually, this is an interesting point.  How zealous should we be in
> using string meths?  I wouldn't propose gobnourmous patches to convert
> the entire standard library, but when I'm hacking on a module anyway,
> can I do the conversion where it makes sense?

I think so. Anyone using an older version of Python with a newer version
of the library is just begging for trouble, so you might as well give
him some <wink>. If they feel more natural in context, the standard 
library should use them -- that's what they're there for.

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