[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 09.08.2013 21:34, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 08.08.13 22:16, M.-A. Lemburg написав(ла):
>> I don't think any of the .format() alternatives you listed is
>> anywhere near as obvious as the methods :-)
> 
> I confess that I be forced to look into documentation to write these examples. ;-)  It's because I
> don't use new style formatting very often. However C-style alternatives looks enough obvious to me.
> 
>> If you have you ever typed on a keyboard with shift lock enabled,
>> you'd know what it's needed for ;-)
> 
> Are .swapcase() swaps ";" and ":"? Or "q" and "й" (on my computers I use CapsLock to switch keyboard
> layout between English and Ukrainian)? ;-)

I guess it's one of those functions that someone invented as
example of an involutary string function for a tutorial late in
the 1980s. It then probably developed a life of its own ;-)

There's even a YouTube video on it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPrqhB1dmJA

(the author obviously has a Java background ;-))

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