[Patches] moving acknowledgements from docstrings to comments

[bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

    GvR> I think that in the sake of stability, there's little point
    GvR> in going around to remove all string-module references.  (I'm
    GvR> sure that if we do this on too massive a scale, we'll end up
    GvR> with at least one accident -- I don't think that's worth it.)

Agreed completely.  I think the approach should be that if you're
reworking, fixing, or improving modules anyway, you have the liberty
(but not the requirement) to use string methods.  I'd vote for
consistency though: if you're going to move toward string methods for
some part of the module, you should probably do so for the entire
module (hopefully allowing you to remove the import of string).

>>>>> "MZ" == Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> writes:

    MZ> I think so. Anyone using an older version of Python with a
    MZ> newer version of the library is just begging for trouble, so
    MZ> you might as well give him some <wink>. 

Just one little thing to cloud the issue.  Some parts of the Python
library and/or Tools and such /are/ useful outside the context of
Python 1.6.  E.g. I distribute the latest smtplib.py with Mailman, so
converting that module to string methods would cause me pain.  That's
my problem though, not yours... just something to think about.

-Barry