[Python-ideas] Removing some string methods?

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:36:17PM -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> I don't think we gain anything by taking justification and centering 
> methods away. It just makes life difficult for people like me who use those
> methods for formatting text.  Also, these methods have nearly zero mental 
> overhead -- they are self-explanatory and have no learning curve.

Fair enough.

> The swapcase() method is more use case challenged and could probably be 
> zapped without anyone caring.

I did a Google code search, and outside of Python test suites and the
other implementations, I found exactly two uses of swapcase.

--amk