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

Barry A. Warsaw barry@digicool.com
Thu, 10 May 2001 00:08:42 -0400


>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com> writes:

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

IIRC, I once proposed to share code bases through elaborate
#includes and exported functions, but that never went very far.
Guido's already pronounced on this, and I'd say good riddance to
strop.

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@digicool.com> writes:

    GvR> Yes, but in the mean time the fact that it's buggy doesn't
    GvR> bother me at all.  Let it be as buggy as it always was --
    GvR> that's one more reason to stop using it! :-)
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For a minute there, I thought you said "to strop using it". :)

-Barry