[Python-Dev] partition() (was: Remove str.find in 3.0?)

Michael Hoffman hoffman at ebi.ac.uk
Tue Aug 30 18:19:22 CEST 2005


[Shane Hathaway writes about the existence of both module-level
functions and object methods to do the same regex operations]

> Apparently Python believes TMTOWTDI is the right practice here. ;-)
> See search, match, split, findall, finditer, sub, and subn:
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/node114.html
> http://docs.python.org/lib/re-objects.html

Dare I ask whether the uncompiled versions should be considered for
removal in Python 3.0?

*puts on his asbestos jacket*
-- 
Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk>
European Bioinformatics Institute



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