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

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Wed, 9 May 2001 21:13:20 -0400


[Guido]
> In my mind, strop is obsolete.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.)

So if Fred changes the docs to say it's obsolete, maybe we can actually rip
out the buggy and redundant code it contains in about 2 years <wink>.

cheeredly y'rs  - tim