[Python-Dev] deprecating string module?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > These "use cases"
> > don't convince me that there's a legitimate use case for
> > string.letters etc. that the methods don't cover.
> 
> This is funny. In the C++ community there's a nearly unanimous
> consensus that way too much of the functionality of the standard
> strings is expressed as member functions.

Interesting.  Python used to have the same attitude, hence the string
module -- but the existence of multiple string types made methods more
attractive.

What's the alternative proposed for C++?

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