string goes away

[Jack Diederich]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 08:32:20PM -0800, Andreas Beyer wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> If I am getting the docs etc. correctly, the string-module is depricated 
> and is supposed to be removed with the release of Python 3.0.
> I still use the module a lot and there are situations in which I don't 
> know what to do without it. Maybe you can give me some help.
> 
> I loved to use
> >>> string.join(list_of_str, sep)
> instead of
> >>> sep.join(list_of_str)
> 
> I think the former is much more telling what is happening than the 
> latter. However, I will get used to it.
> 
> But what about this:
> >>> upper_list = map(string.upper, list_of_str)
> 
> What am I supposed to do instead?
> 
>>> map(str.upper, 'huzza!')
['H', 'U', 'Z', 'Z', 'A', '!']
>>> 

It doesn't work when passed a unicode string, but if you don't
care about that just start typing 'str' instead of 'string'

-jackdied