[Python-ideas] Deprecating rarely used str methods

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 10 August 2013 03:31, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 09Aug2013 10:21, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> | M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> | >If you have you ever typed on a keyboard with shift lock enabled,
> |
> | ...on a Windows or Linux PC. If you're using a Mac,
> | no algorithm will rescue you from that blunder. :-)
>
> One of the first things I do on a new machine, Linux or Mac, is to
> disable the capslock key.  It is a simple keyboard pref on the Mac
> and a kept-in-a-file xmodmap incantation on Linux (assuming X11
> desktop).

Interesting. That's a cleverer solution than mine which is to just
remove the physical key (with a screwdriver if necessary or whatever
else comes to hand).


Oscar