On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:10:38 -0500 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 12/9/2010 5:54 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > It would make me happy if we could agree to kill or at least mortally wound > > str.swapcase(). I did some research on what it is go for and found > > that it is a vestige of an old word processor command to handle > > the case where a user accidentally left the caps lock key turned-on. > > AFAICT using Google's code search, it has nearly zero value for > > Python scripts. It does have a cost however, the code search turned-up > > many cases where people were writing string like objects and included > > swapcase() just so they could match the built-in API. > > > > It's time for swapcase() to go the way of the dinosaurs. > > +1, assuming the normal deprecation process. > > If we're looking to reduce the number of methods on str, I wouldn't mind > seeing center() and zfill() also go away, since they're trivially > replaced by format().
Well, it's only trivial when you know format()'s wicked mini-language by heart :/ center() is easy and obvious. zfill() is arguably a bit too specialized. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
