PEP proposal: enhanced string functions

[Stephen Ferg]

> An implementation of this is available as SF patch #424606
> (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group id=5470&atid=305470&func=det
> ail&aid=424606)

Thanks for this information.

Here's a version of the URL with the space replaced by %20.
Note that you have to join the two lines to get the complete URL:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group%20
id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail&aid=424606

> and has been rejected by Guido. 

Here's Guido's response:
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Date: 2001-08-09 10:50
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I don't think this would be used enough to warrant the added
complexity.  Closing as Rejected.
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Rexx has such a feature, and REXX programmers find it useful, although
it is not used frequently.

So I guess it comes down to a trade-off question, to wit: Is the
expected frequency of use great enough to justify the complexity that
the feature would add to the code of the Python interpreter.