[Patches] Please review before applying

[Guido van Rossum]

Wanted: reviews for this patch!  It seems usable but (as the author
admits) needs another careful eye before I can apply it.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

(Fred Gansevles wrote:)

> This (mega-)patch updates all the modules in the standard-module (all
> Lib/*.py files) to use the new string-methods instead of the old string
> module.

> Most of the changes are simple translations, i.e.:
> 
>     string.split (s, sep)	--> s.split (sep)
> 
> Some of the changes also take the context into account, see:
>     - cgi.py
>     - formatter.py
>     - imaplib.py
> 
> Both 'make test' and 'Lib/compileall.py Lib' produced no error-output
> so I'd expect no big problems.