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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2012-01-11 04:18:20 -0800
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2012-01-11 04:18:20 -0800
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DEVELOPING: remove section about string module
The module no longer exists since Python 2.7, so by now it should be obvious that it's obsolete.
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@@ -33,27 +33,6 @@ The mixing of tabs and spaces means other developers can't read what you did.
This is why the python peps state spaces over tabs; because with spaces the line
wrapping is always clear (but you cannot convert spaces as easily as tabwidth).
-String
--------
-Try not to use the functions in the string module, they are deprecated.
-
-string.join(<iterable>," ")
-
-should be replaced with:
-
-" ".join(<iterable>)
-
-and:
-
-string.split(string, delimeter)
-
-should be replaced with:
-
-"somestring".split(delimeter)
-
-Nearly all other methods in string work on string objects and have similar calling
-conventions.
-
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