[Python-3000] Whither string? (was Re: python/branches/py3k-struni/Lib/test/test_strop.py)

[Georg Brandl]

Bill Janssen schrieb:
>> The trend in support seems to be toward moving everything left that is
>> useful from "string" to "text", which would be a package.
> 
> Sigh.  After 15 years of carefully writing python code using "text"
> instead of "string" as a variable name, I'm sure this will work out
> just fine.  :-)

As long as we don't find other functions/classes that warrant the name
"text", I propose to keep the string module as it is.

Georg

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