On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:05, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Yes, that would be good. Is there anything besides maketrans() in the > string module worth saving? (IMO letters and digits etc. are not -- > you can use s.isletter() etc. for that.) I'm not following, are you saying we don't need string.ascii_letters and friends any more? -Barry