[Python-ideas] Removing some string methods?

[Raymond Hettinger]

[AMK]
> Has any consideration been given to removing some of the lesser-used
> string methods in 3.0?  e.g. .center, .ljust/rjust, .zfill, .swapcase?

I don't think we gain anything by taking justification and centering methods away. It just makes life difficult for people like me 
who use those
methods for formatting text.  Also, these methods have nearly zero mental overhead -- they are self-explanatory and have no learning 
curve.

The swapcase() method is more use case challenged and could probably be zapped without anyone caring.

The zfill() method is no longer necessary because rjust() takes an optional fillchar argument:

    '123'.zfill(10) == '123'.rjust(10, '0')


Raymond