[Patches] moving acknowledgements from docstrings to comments

[Guido van Rossum]

> >>>>> "GH" == Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>     GH> It also changes string.index(opt, '=') to opt.index('=').
> 
> Actually, this is an interesting point.  How zealous should we be in
> using string meths?  I wouldn't propose gobnourmous patches to convert
> the entire standard library, but when I'm hacking on a module anyway,
> can I do the conversion where it makes sense?

That sounds reasonable.

I think that in the sake of stability, there's little point in going
around to remove all string-module references.  (I'm sure that if we
do this on too massive a scale, we'll end up with at least one
accident -- I don't think that's worth it.)

Conservatively yours,

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)