[Python-Dev] PEP 292, Simpler String Substitutions

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:10:57 -0400


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>
> I'm +1 on adding a text utility module for occasionally useful
> stuff like wrapping, getting rid of gremlins, doing various kinds
> of substitutions, centering/capitalizing/padding and otherwise
> formatting strings, searching/parsing, and other fun stuff that
> your average text editor can do (and +0 on using the existing
> "string" module for that purpose, but I can live with another
> name).

+1

(And I said so in the original thread on text wrapping.)
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