[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 In my mind, strop is obsolete.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