[Python-3000] string module trimming (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Apr 17 22:58:19 CEST 2007

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On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Neal Norwitz wrote:

On 4/17/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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On Apr 17, 2007, at 5:03 AM, Neal Norwitz wrote: > * maketrans remains (also implemented in stropmodule.c). It is > used 11 times. > * asciiletters is used 17 times > * asciilowercase is used 2 times > * digits is used 15 times > * hexdigits is used 2 times > * letters is used 9 times > * whitespace is used 4 times You're not planning on removing these too are you? I don't have any plans, just considering options. Move them somewhere? Perhaps, trim the ones that are unused. In a unicode world, I'm not sure how much some of these make sense. letters stands out more than others. I don't know enough about unicode to know if digits or whitespace can be diff.

Certainly it makes sense to keep the ascii_* constants. The docs say
letters and lowercase are locale-aware, so I guess it makes sense to
keep those too.

The Template class is in string, which seems pretty appropriate. Although with the naming re-org that will be coming, should string be renamed to stringlib (or whatever)?

I don't know, I think 'string' still works fine for me.

What would you like to see for things like maketrans, capwords, etc?

I've used them both a few times, so I guess I'd be fine with keeping
them where they are. capwords() seems easy enough to write the one
or two times I'd need it, so I don't have strong feelings about them.

I know at one point there was talk about a 'text' or 'textlib'
package, which might serve as a way to organize such other modules as
textwrap, *StringIO, etc.

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