Moving around in a string
Mark Engle
engSpideRlem at pdxThiS.edu
Sat Dec 6 09:18:00 EST 2003
Peter Otten wrote:
> Mark Engle wrote:
> > http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-string.html
> >
>
> One caveat (only for the string module), quoting from the above
> document, but easily overlooked:
>
> "Many of the functions provided by this module are also defined as
> methods of string and Unicode objects; see ``String Methods''
> (section 2.2.6) for more information on those."
>
> So whenever you're tempted to write string.somefunc(s, moreargs),
> rather use s.somefunc(moreargs).
>
> Peter
Thank you. Time to do some more reading.
Mark
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