Neal Norwitz writes:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

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BTW, how about deprecating strop while we're at it?

Right now in string.py, there is:

from strop import maketrans, lowercase, uppercase, whitespace letters = lowercase + uppercase

However, lowercase, uppercase, and letters are already defined in string.py. It seems the only function being used from strop is maketrans. Is this correct? Should the others be removed from string.py?

The strop definitions reflect the locale better than the ones in string.py. Cheers, M. -- And then the character-only displays went away (leading to increasingly silly graphical effects and finally to ads on web pages). -- John W. Baxter, comp.lang.python