[Python-ideas] Removing some string methods?

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri May 16 21:29:58 CEST 2008


On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:05 AM, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
> Has any consideration been given to removing some of the lesser-used
> string methods in 3.0?  e.g. .center, .ljust/rjust, .zfill, .swapcase?
>

Don't remember any specifically coming up. But are you sure those are
really lesser-used? I can remember using ljust, rjust, and zfill on
multiple occasions. Have you tried looking at the stdlib or something
to get usage stats?

-Brett



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