[Python-Dev] Death to string functions!

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> Ideally, I would like to deprecate the entire string module, so that I
> can place a single warning at its top.  This will cause a single
> warning to be issued for programs that still use it (no matter how
> many times it is imported).  Unfortunately, there are a couple of
> things that still need it: string.letters etc., and
> string.maketrans().

Can't we come up with a module similar to unicodedata[.py] ? 

string.py could then still provide the interfaces, but the
implementation would live in stringdata.py

[Perhaps we won't need stringdata by then... Unicode will have
 taken over and the discussion be mood ;-)]

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