[Python-Dev] deprecating string module?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > In python, you don't need overloading, you have a variety of
> > optional parameter mechanisms
> 
> ...which forces users to write centralized dispatching mechanism
> that could be much more elegantly-handled by the language. The
> language already does something just for operators, but the rules
> are complicated and don't scale well.

I don't think the situation can be improved without adding type
declarations.

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