[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules stropmodule.c,2.76,2.77 (original) (raw)

Greg Ward gward@python.net
Wed, 9 May 2001 21:08:58 -0400

On 09 May 2001, Guido van Rossum said:

In my mind, strop is obsolete. We keep it around because some losers like to import it directly, but it's basically dead, and except for a few functions, string.py doesn't use it any more. (The exceptions are maketrans, lowercase, uppercase, whitespace.)

Perhaps 2.2 should deprecate direct use of strop noisily -- warn when imported, except when imported by string.py. (No idea how you'd implement that, I'm just spouting off.) Then it could go away in 2.3.

I don't think there's anything particularly controversial about 'strop' going away after one release with a deprecation warning -- it's not 'string', after all! (Ie. imported by every single scrap of Python code ever written before string methods came along, and by quite a lot since then.)

    Greg

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