String functions deprication

[Paul Watson]

steve morin wrote:
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/node110.html
> 
> These methods are being deprecated.  What are they being replaced
> with?  Does anyone know?
> 
> Steve

It might be helpful to compare the following lists.

Python 2.1 (#1, May 23 2003, 11:43:56) [C] on aix4
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 >>> import string
 >>> dir(string)
['_StringType', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', 
'_float', '_idmap', '_idmapL', '_int', '_long', 'atof', 'atof_error', 
'atoi', 'atoi_error', 'atol', 'atol_error', 'capitalize', 'capwords', 
'center', 'count', 'digits', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'hexdigits', 'index', 
'index_error', 'join', 'joinfields', 'letters', 'ljust', 'lower', 
'lowercase', 'lstrip', 'maketrans', 'octdigits', 'printable', 
'punctuation', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rstrip', 'split', 
'splitfields', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'translate', 'upper', 'uppercase', 
'whitespace', 'zfill']
 >>> s = "now"
 >>> dir(s)
['capitalize', 'center', 'count', 'encode', 'endswith', 'expandtabs', 
'find', 'index', 'isalnum', 'isalpha', 'isdigit', 'islower', 'isspace', 
'istitle', 'isupper', 'join', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lstrip', 'replace', 
'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitlines', 
'startswith', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'title', 'translate', 'upper']
 >>> for m in dir(string):
...     if m not in dir(s):
...         print m
...
_StringType
__builtins__
__doc__
__file__
__name__
_float
_idmap
_idmapL
_int
_long
atof
atof_error
atoi
atoi_error
atol
atol_error
capwords
digits
hexdigits
index_error
joinfields
letters
lowercase
maketrans
octdigits
printable
punctuation
splitfields
uppercase
whitespace
zfill
 >>> for m in dir(s):
...     if m not in dir(string):
...         print m
...
encode
endswith
isalnum
isalpha
isdigit
islower
isspace
istitle
isupper
splitlines
startswith
title