[Python-Dev] Re: String module

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 30 May 2002 09:56:17 -0400


> Michael also schooled me on this.  I made a comment on Thomas Heller's
> patch http://python.org/sf/561832 to indicate this info.  His patch
> adds letters, digits, etc. but not maketrans().

I've rejected that patch -- we should use isxxx() methods instead of
exposing the sets as variables.

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