[Python-Dev] Maintenance burden of str.swapcase

[Simon Cross]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> Which applications? I'm not sure the number of applications using
>> str.swapcase gets even as high as ten.
>
> I think this is what people underestimate. I can't name
> applications either - but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
> I'm deeply convinced that the majority of Python code (and
> I mean *large* majority) is unpublished.
>
> I expect thousands of uses world-wide.

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=swapcase%20lang:%5Epython$&type=cs

There are quite a few hits but more people appear to be
re-implementing it than using it (I haven't gone to the trouble of
mining the search results to get an accurate picture though).