My string module doesn't have maketrans or translate functions

[Mark Lawrence]

On 11/04/2013 16:30, Lamb wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I'm really new to python and trying to figure out the basic rule and settings of it. I'm using python 3.3 and I was trying this code in python:
>
> import string
> s = "string. With. Punctuation?"
> out = s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation)
>
> And I got the following error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:/Python33/trials/ls.py", line 5, in <module>
>      out = s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation)
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans'
>
> So I used the following to see functions inside string
> e=dir(string)
>>>> print(e)
> ['ChainMap', 'Formatter', 'Template', '_TemplateMetaclass', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__initializing__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '_re', '_string', 'ascii_letters', 'ascii_lowercase', 'ascii_uppercase', 'capwords', 'digits', 'hexdigits', 'octdigits', 'printable', 'punctuation', 'whitespace']
>
> It doesn't have translate(), maketrans(), rstrip() and a whole lot of other things. What's the problem?
>
> Thanks!
>

The string module is effectively dead.  Many functions were deprecated 
back in 2.6, maketrans in 3.1, just use string methods instead.

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