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[Guido van Rossum]

> Most of the changes are simple translations, i.e.:
> 
>     string.split (s, sep)	--> s.split (sep)
> 
> Some of the changes also take the context into account, see:
>     - cgi.py
>     - formatter.py
>     - imaplib.py
> 
> Both 'make test' and 'Lib/compileall.py Lib' produced no error-output
> so I'd expect no big problems.
> 
> The following migt go into the csv-log:
> ________________________________________________________________________
> This (mega-)patch updates all the modules in the standard-module (all
> Lib/*.py files) to use the new string-methods instead of the old string
> module.

Thanks, Fred!

I don't have time to review this before 1.6a2 goes out, but there will
be a third alpha (at least) and some betas.  I hope others will review
parts of your patch!

One concern: Greg Ward is trying to keep distutils compatible with
Python 1.5.1.  So those files should not be touched.

I'm not sure if there are similar concerns elsewhere...

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)