PEP proposal: enhanced string functions

[Oliver Fromme]

Martin Franklin <martin.franklin at westgeo.com> wrote:
 > Matthew Dixon Cowles wrote:
 >> On 13 Nov 2001 12:54:47 -0800, Stephen Ferg <steve at ferg.org> wrote:
 >>>Title: Optional pad character for string justification functions
 >> 
 >> I like this.
 > 
 > Me too.

For the center() case, it might be useful to optionally
allow another argument, so you can have different padding
on the left and on the right.

Example:
>>> string.center(" Title ", 25, ">", "<")
'>>>>>>>>> Title <<<<<<<<<'


 >>>Title: Optional argument for string strip functions
 > [...]
 >> This bothers me a bit for the same reason that the split() method
 >> does. It strikes me as weird that without arguments, split() splits on
 >> all whitespace but that it will only take one character as an
 >> argument. I'd prefer to be able to pass a sequence to strip() and have
 >> any of those characters stripped.
 > 
 > how about adding new methods stripc(), rstripc(), lstripc(),  (or 
 > stripchar()) then maybe stripword() etc for what you want......

I'm not so convinced about that.  Instead of adding a
whole bunch of new functions, maybe better think about
using re.sub and re.split, which already do what you
want (and more).

Just my 0.02 Euro.

Regards
   Oliver

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