Martin Miller wrote: > To avoid continued reinvention of this wheel, I'd also vote to have > this functionality be at least included in a standard module, if not > built-in.
This has been discussed on python-dev (I proposed it actually). The final consensus was that no such implementation would be included at this time, as it's a pretty simple thing to implement, and there are already several implementations in the Cookbook. My arguments included the fact that there were several implementations in the Cookbook as an indication it should be included in the standard library ... Thread starts here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-March/051915.html Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
