[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules stropmodule.c,2.76,2.77

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Wed, 09 May 2001 21:00:36 -0500


> Oh, fuck.  Somebody remind me why we have both stropmodule.c and
> stringobject.c?  These bugs exist in both.

In my mind, strop is obsolete.  We keep it around because some losers
like to import it directly, but it's basically dead, and except for a
few functions, string.py doesn't use it any more.  (The exceptions are
maketrans, lowercase, uppercase, whitespace.)

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