deprecated string module issue

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:17 -0500, GrayShark wrote:

> Why the rudness Terry Jan Reedy? Get up on the wrong side of the bed? Or
> worse luck, no one on the other side to create a wrong side?

I see only one person being rude here, and that's you. Terry made the 
very reasonable observation that you would serve the community, and thank 
us, by posting a bug report to pylint, rather than just ignoring it, and 
you respond with a totally bogus accusation of "rudeness" followed by 
comments about what you imagine Terry's personal life is like.


As for your guess as to why pylint haven't fixed the ticket "similar to" 
this issue:

> As to your comment about Logilab's pylint. I'v seen a ticket similar to
> this from three months back. I assume they're not fixing it because if
> you review 'string' via pydoc you'd read this:
[...]

Or possibly the ticket has just been missed, and all it needs is a 
comment made saying "This has bitten me too" and somebody will attend to 
it.

Or not -- who knows? But making *assumptions* that a pylint bug won't be 
fixed because of the docstring in the string module is foolish. Unless 
the bug is marked as "Won't fix", the safe assumption is that it hasn't 
been worked on YET.



-- 
Steven