pylint #2481 there is still some useful stuff in string module [open]

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• 2009/05/04 05:45, written by anon

  I had some code that used the string.digits() method and got this message. Indeed, string objects do not contain all functionality in the string module, so it is not necessarily a universal replacement.
  
• 2009/10/05 20:18, written by anon

  '''
  this code seems to work better
  '''
  import string
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
  
      shift = 3
      choice = raw_input("would you like to encode or decode?")
      word = (raw_input("Please enter text"))
      letters = string.ascii_letters + string.punctuation + string.digits
      encoded = ''
      if choice == "encode":
          for letter in word:
              if letter == ' ':
                  encoded = encoded + ' '
              else:
                  x = letters.index(letter) + shift
                  encoded=encoded + letters[x]
      elif choice == "decode":
          for letter in word:
              if letter == ' ':
                  encoded = encoded + ' '
              else:
                  x = letters.index(letter) - shift
                  encoded = encoded + letters[x]
  
      print encoded
  
• 2011/01/21 12:33, written by anon

  Please fix this. There is no sensible substitute for the constants in that package and it's best practice to use them.
  
• 2011/01/21 12:33, written by anon

  Please fix this. There is no sensible substitute for the constants in that package and it's best practice to use them.
  
• 2011/04/21 06:54, written by anon

  This definitely should not be the default behavior; string is not deprecated and contains useful constants.
  
• 2011/07/31 22:26, written by anon

  And the string.Template class.
  
• 2012/06/12 13:29, written by anon

  I prefer string.join(s, ",") to ",".join(s) which also gives a warning.
  
• 2013/03/11 12:04, written by anon

  Please give this issue some more attention: it has been opened for nearly 4 years without as much as a squeak.
  

  The deprecated functions are listed at http://docs.python.org/2/library/string.html#deprecated-string-functions
  
  • 2013/03/11 12:09, written by acampeas

    You know that sometimes, providing a patch (even an unperfect one) can be the fastest way to get something ?