[Python-Dev] Death to string functions!

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:09:46AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib
> In directory slayer.i.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv18082
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	httplib.py 
> Log Message:
> Get rid of string functions.

Can you explain the logic behind this recent interest in removing
string functions from the standard library?  It it performance?
Some unicode issue?  I don't have a great attachment to string.py
but I also don't see the justification for the amount of work it
requires.

  Neil