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

Simon Cross hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 18:33:46 CEST 2011

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com> wrote:

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).

Scratch that -- I should gloss over search results less. It looks like the most common use case is to provide a consistent string-like API somewhere else. So removing it is liking to cause headaches (e.g. test failures) for the people who are wrapping it.

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