[BioPython] Deprecating Bio.mathfns, Bio.stringfns and Bio.listfns?

[Peter]

Dear Biopythoneers,

Is anyone currently using Bio.mathfns, Bio.stringfns or Bio.listfns?
These provide a selection of maths, string and list functions - some
of which are apparently irrelevant with changes or additions to python
itself (e.g. sets).

I'd like to declare these as deprecated for the next release, or at
least obsolete and likely to be deprecated in future - so if you are
using these modules or would like to defend them, please speak up
soon.

Thanks,

Peter

P.S. If you care about the details, there is a longer discussion on
the dev-mailing list:
http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2008-October/004472.html