[Python-Dev] Release Schedules (was Stability & change) (original) (raw)

Alex Martelli aleax@aleax.it
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 08:52:34 +0200

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 08:42, Tim Peters wrote: ...

> unified ints/longs,

People are definitely going to howl about finishing this one. People who used to strip the trailing 'L' from str(long) via str(long)[:-1] found themselves throwing away the last digit after str(long) stopped producing a trailing 'L'. What did they do instead? Almost every workaround I've

Giving strip methods an optional arguments, the characters that are OK to throw away (stopping the stripping when a not-to-be-thrown- away character shows up -- defaulting to whitespace like now of course), would help here and also with other related issues such as emulating Perl's "chomp". I also think it's the kind of change that would be OK in a minor release in the stable branch.

Alex