string methods (was Re: [Python-Dev] A house upon the sand)

[Guido van Rossum]

> .zfill() is implemented for both strings and Unicode, .capwords()
> only for Unicode. Both are disabled, though. I talked with
> Guido about these methods and we decided to leave those two
> methods disabled in the implementation. They just don't provide
> much extra generally useful functionality.

Exactly.  There's a price to pay for adding methods, and I think these
two are below the threshold.

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