[Python-Dev] other "magic strings" issues

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Fri Nov 7 18:26:44 EST 2003


[Fred]
>> I don't think this has ever been justified.  What's wrong with the
>> string module for things like ascii_letters?  What has to go is the
>> collection of functions that were replaced by string methods.

[Guido]
> In the end it would be a module containing 4 constants and one
> function.  I'd rather consolidate all that elsewhere.

Cool -- let's make a new stringhelpers module, then <wink>.



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