[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib/plat-irix5 cddb.py,1.10,1.11

[Eric S. Raymond]

Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com>:
>                  Clearly, Eric went a bit fast for some modules
> (checking in syntax errors :-).

It was the oddest thing.  The conversion was so mechanical that I found 
my attention wandering -- the result (as I noted in a couple of checkin
comments) was that I occasionally hit ^C^C and triggered the commit a
step too early.  Sometimes Emacs makes things too easy!

There were a couple of platform-specific modules I couldn't test completely,
stuff like the two cddb.py versions.  Other than that I'm pretty sure I
didn't break anything.  Where the test jigs looked lacking I beefed them
up some.

The only string imports left are the ones that have to be there because
the code is using a string module constant like string.whitespace or
one of the two odd functions that don't exist as methods, zfill and
maketrans.  Are there any plans to introduce boolean-valued string 
methods corresponding to the ctype.h functions?  That would make
it possible to remove most of the remaining imports.

This was like old times. pulling an all-nighter to clean up a language
library.  I did a *lot* of work like this on Emacs back in the early
1990s.  Count your blessings;   the Python libraries are in far better
shape.
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