[Python-Dev] other "magic strings" issues

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Nov 7 12:26:43 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:05, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Yes, that would be good.  Is there anything besides maketrans() in the
> string module worth saving?  (IMO letters and digits etc. are not --
> you can use s.isletter() etc. for that.)

I'm not following, are you saying we don't need string.ascii_letters and
friends any more?

-Barry





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