[Python-Dev] deprecating string module?

[Fredrik Lundh]

david wrote:

> > What's the alternative proposed for C++?
>=20
> Free functions at namespace scope. The analogy would be module-level
> functions in Python. C++ also has multiple string types, but the
> availability of overloading makes this approach practical

it works pretty well in Python too, of course: the string module
delegates to object methods for all functions; e.g. "string.join()"
uses the "join" implementation method to do the actual work, just
like "len()" uses "__len__" (etc).

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