[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 09.08.2013 12:07, Richard Oudkerk wrote:
> On 09/08/2013 2:45am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> It's true that, if swapcase were proposed today, it probably wouldn't be
>> accepted.
> 
> Or it would throw an error on a string of more than one character.  I think it is really a
> "character method" rather than a string method.

Just a bit of history:

s.swapcase() exists, because a while back we moved from functions
in string.py to methods on string and unicode objects in Python 2.

The swapcase() function in string.py has been there right from
Python's day 1 in VCS history:

http://hg.python.org/cpython-fullhistory/annotate/5570dbb1ce55/Lib/string.py#l38

author 	Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
date 	Sat, 13 Oct 1990 19:23:40 +0000 (1990-10-13)

Instead of deprecating this piece of history, perhaps we should start
deprecating the caps lock key ;-) ... just think of what would give
us: no more accidental yelling on the Internet, confused Nigerian
spammers, fewer problems with password entries, just to name
a few things.

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