Re: An alternative to sufreplace

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> On Sunday 17 August 2003 16:52, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > > The attached patch adds suffixmangle() to the library of AAP-specific
> > > Python functions. It acts like a kind of list-lifted sufreplace() -
> > > you give it a list of replacements and it does them. The calling form
> > > is
> 
> > The functionality of this function comes very close to sufreplace().
> > It's not clear to me why you want it to work differently.
> 
> When I wrote it, sufreplace() was still broken when you passed it lists of 
> files with attributes (leavign a trailing }). In the end, it is no different 
> from nested sufreplace(), so it's not _that_ useful an addition, except in 
> terms of shortness-of-expression.
> 
> > Passing a list of tuples makes it very Pythonesque.  Just passing a
> 
> Heh, and here I went out of my way to write something that fits in the Python 
> idiom. I figured that [ (a,b),(c,d),(e,f) ] would be easier to check for 
> correctness for the user than [ a,c,e ], [ b,d,f ] --- same number of 
> elements in each? Is the order the right one?
> 
> Anyway, as long as I'm the only one who needs to do lots of sufreplaces(), 
> I'll keep it in my recipes and not elsewhere.

I thought you were going to make a patch to improve how sufreplace()
works.  Are you still going to do that?  You can understand it will help
more people, while your private function in your recipe won't get a wide
audience. :-)

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