[Python-Dev] sWAPcASE Was: transform() and untransform() methods, and the codec registry

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:10:38 -0500
Eric Smith <eric at 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.