On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Arnar Birgisson <[email protected]> wrote:
> One comment about startsWith, endsWith, contains etc.. currently they
> take first the haystack and then the needle (I'm talking about
> parameter order). Perhaps switching this could benefit the usecase
> where this is used with partial?
>
> my_namesakes = filter(partial(contains, 'Arnar'), list_of_names);

This is a good point. I think I'll change my ways. Watch out for the
next commit... :-)

> The module should define constants like ascii_chars, digits etc. as
> per http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/lib/module-string.html -- also
> split, join (although they are included in js as native methods -
> having functions can be convenient for map & friends).

That might be an idea. With the same "reversed" parameter order as the
ones above of course.

> For padRight and padLeft - I prefer the Python names ljust, rjust (and 
> center).

Ah, well... I didn't look too hard into Python here. Just googled
various name ideas and picked the most popular one (think it was from
some MS API actually)... ;-)

Cheers,

/Per

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