str vs dict API size (was 'Re: left padding zeroes on a string...')

[George Sakkis]

"Larry Bates" <lbates at syscononline.com> wrote in message news:YOKdnQbt1qRGAdnfRVn-tg at comcast.com...
> Once it is in everyone is hesitant to take it out for fear of
> breaking someone's code that uses it (no matter how obscure).
> Putting in new methods should be difficult and require lots
> of review for that reason and so we don't have language bloat.
>
> Larry Bates

Language bloat is subjective of course, but I fail to see why putting in dict.reset and dict.add
should be harder than, say, str.swapcase or str.capitalize.

George