Le 03/02/2018 à 23:04, Franklin? Lee a écrit :
Let s be a str. I propose to allow these existing str methods to take params in new forms.
s.replace(old, new): Allow passing in a collection of olds. Allow passing in a single argument, a mapping of olds to news. Allow the olds in the mapping to be tuples of strings.
s.split(sep), s.rsplit, s.partition: Allow sep to be a collection of separators.
s.startswith, s.endswith: Allow argument to be a collection of strings.
s.find, s.index, s.count, x in s: Similar. These methods are also in `list`, which can't distinguish between items, subsequences, and subsets. However, `str` is already inconsistent with `list` here: list.M looks for an item, while str.M looks for a subsequence.
s.[r|l]strip: Sadly, these functions already interpret their str arguments as collections of characters.
I second that proposal. I regularly need those and feel frustrated when it doesn't work. I even wrote a wrapper that does exactly this : https://github.com/Tygs/ww/blob/master/src/ww/wrappers/strings.py But because it's pure Python, it's guaranteed to be slow. Plus you need to install it every time you need it.