[Python-Dev] str.dedent (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Thu Sep 15 03:29:41 CEST 2005

some time ago, I proposed a string method "dedent" (which currently is in the textwrap module). The RFE is at http://python.org/sf/1237680.

Any opinions? If I don't get positive comments, I'll reject it.

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Let it continue to live in textwrap where the existing pure python code adequately serves all string-like objects. It's not worth losing the duck typing by attaching new methods to str, unicode, UserString, and everything else aspiring to be string-like.

String methods should be limited to generic string manipulations. String applications should be in other namespaces. That is why we don't have str.md5(), str.crc32(), str.ziplib(), etc.

Also, I don't want to encourage dedenting as a way of life --- programs using it often are likely to be doing things the hard way.

Raymond

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