Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-12 Thread Colin J. Williams
Benjamin wrote: On Jul 11, 3:06 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Python 3 gets actually released (nobody can say for sure how the

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Ben Finney wrote: So, in summary, despite the appearance of the "Python 3.0" page on the wiki, there's really no single clearing-house source of Python 3.0 information that is maintained. The interested party needs to know a half-dozen different resources to find out what's changing, and none

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Ben Finney
John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > library changes are all listed in PEP 3008. I assume you mean PEP 3108, "Standard Library Reorganization" http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3108/>. -- \ “I have one rule to live by: Don't make it worse.” —Hazel | `\

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Ben Finney
John Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jul 11, 6:26 am, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 11, 3:06 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Is there a better information source, then, for the current > > > state of what's expected in Python 3.0? > > > > Look at the deve

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Ben Finney wrote: "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Python 3 gets actually released (nobody can say for sure how the release will look like in all details). Is there a b

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread John Roth
On Jul 11, 6:26 am, Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 11, 3:06 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? > > > > All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Py

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Benjamin
On Jul 11, 3:06 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? > > > All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Python 3 gets > > actually released (nobody can say for sure how the r

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Ben Finney
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? > > All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Python 3 gets > actually released (nobody can say for sure how the release will > look like in all details). Is there a better infor

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-11 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> This is rather disappointing. Is that entire page suspect? All documentation about Python 3 is suspect until Python 3 gets actually released (nobody can say for sure how the release will look like in all details). Wiki pages, traditionally, are always suspect for incorrect or outdated informat

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Can anyone see a reason to believe the above wiki page's statement > > about the 'string' module being removed? More to the point, can > > anyone see a reason why that statement should remain on that page? > > Removing string and mov

Re: Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-10 Thread Terry Reedy
Ben Finney wrote: Howdy all, The Python wiki page states on its page for Python 3.0 http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3.0>, in the section for "Standard Library Changes" http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3.0#head-40dd57e6561cce0b209ef49f8ce86030c6313113>, that the 'string' module is to be remo

Python 3.0 and removal of the 'string' module

2008-07-10 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy all, The Python wiki page states on its page for Python 3.0 http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3.0>, in the section for "Standard Library Changes" http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3.0#head-40dd57e6561cce0b209ef49f8ce86030c6313113>, that the 'string' module is to be removed. It references PE