[Python-3000] Whither string? (was Re: python/branches/py3k-struni/Lib/test/test_strop.py)

[Aahz]

On Thu, May 17, 2007, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
> To be honest, I have never understood the repeated proposals to get
> rid of the string module. Get rid of the functions that are just
> duplicates of str methods, sure, but the module makes sense to me
> as a home for text related constants and other machinery (such as
> string.Template and the various building blocks for more advanced PEP
> 3101 based formatting).

The trend in support seems to be toward moving everything left that is
useful from "string" to "text", which would be a package.  Overall, I'm
+1 on that idea.  I can see arguments in favor of leaving string, but
that name just has too much baggage.
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