module string.py

[NOPollution]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:15:06 +0200, Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?=
<gerhard.haering at gmx.de> wrote:

>Hi "Nop",
>
>* NOPollution <r_proietti at yahoo.com> [2002-06-20 11:38 +0000]:
>> I have two trouble:
>> 
>> 1)  looking at the module "string.py" I have seen that are described
>> some functions like "lower", "rjust", etc. Ther problem is that it
>> seems not to describe exactly how this functions are made, but there
>> is only a comment about their properties. So in which file are these
>> functions described?
>
>The behaviour of these functions is described in the documentation, for
>example in http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-string.html:
>
>lower(s)
>Return a copy of s, but with upper case letters converted to lower case. 
>
>In this particular case, the docstring of the function has just as much
>info:
>
>>>> string.lower.__doc__
>'lower(s) -> string\n\n    Return a copy of the string s converted to
>lowercase.\n\n    '
>
>If you're looking at additional info for _how_ exactactly these
>functions are implemented, then the source code is the only info there
>is.

Where could I find the source code of the functions implemented in
"string.py"?


> Btw. in current Python versions the string module just delegetages
>to the string methods, which are the preferred option. So you could just
>as well use.
>
>> 2) I tried to cancel the file "string.py". After that, the Python
>> Interpreter doesn't work anymore (it can't even start working). Why?
>
>You're not supposed to delete modules from the standard library.  If you
>don't want your Python to fail in obscure ways, you'd better get that
>file back into place. Btw.  my Python 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 starts up fine
>even without the string module.
>
>Gerhard
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>reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))
>
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