[Python-Dev] Re: deprecating string module?

[Guido van Rossum]

[...] I don't think that the data objects have any other function except for membership testing [...]

This is useful being able to quickly enumerate letters, or digits. Just yesterday, I wrote: contexte = {} for nom, valeur in map(None, string.uppercase[:len(valeur)], valeur): assert valeur in '01', valeur contexte[nom] = valeur != '0' -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard