[Python-Dev] Maintenance burden of str.swapcase (original) (raw)

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 18:31:08 CEST 2011

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Which applications? I'm not sure the number of applications using str.swapcase gets even as high as ten. I think this is what people underestimate. I can't name applications either - but that doesn't mean they don't exist. I'm deeply convinced that the majority of Python code (and I mean large majority) is unpublished. I expect thousands of uses world-wide.

http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=swapcase%20lang:%5Epython$&type=cs

There are quite a few hits but more people appear to be re-implementing it than using it (I haven't gone to the trouble of mining the search results to get an accurate picture though).

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