Author: guido.van.rossum Date: Tue Jun 19 01:49:27 2007 New Revision: 56028 Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3100.txt Log: Some updates. Remove an item that's covered by acceptance of PEP 3121. Remove an item that's covered by rejection of PEP 3122 and PEP 299. Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3100.txt ============================================================================== --- peps/trunk/pep-3100.txt (original) +++ peps/trunk/pep-3100.txt Tue Jun 19 01:49:27 2007 @@ -98,9 +98,6 @@ [x for x in 1, 2] will need to be: [x for x in (1, 2)] - Lambdas may have to be parenthesized [#pep308]_ -* Builtin module init function names (PyMODINIT_FUNC) will be prefixed - with _Py (or Py). Currently they aren't namespace safe since the names - start with init. * __builtins__ should get a different name *or* completely unified with __builtin__. Keeping both with confusingly similar spellings and semantics is evil. [#__builtin__]_ @@ -112,7 +109,6 @@ NB. {range(x)} means set([range(x)]), NOT set(range(x)). There's no literal for an empty set; use set() (or {1}&{2} :-). There's no frozenset literal; they are too rarely needed. -* Might reconsider PEP 299 [#pep299]_: special __main__() function in modules. * The ``__nonzero__`` special method will be renamed to ``__bool__`` and have to return a bool. The typeobject slot will be called ``tp_bool`` [23]_ [done] @@ -149,11 +145,12 @@ literals with 'L' or 'l' suffix disappear [1]_ [done] * Make all strings be Unicode, and have a separate bytes() type [1]_ The new string type will be called 'str'. + [halfway done, in py3k-struni branch] * Return iterable views instead of lists where appropriate for atomic type methods (e.g. ``dict.keys()``, ``dict.values()``, ``dict.items()``, etc.); iter* methods will be removed. [done] * Make ``string.join()`` stringify its arguments? [18]_ -* Fix file() so it returns a ValueError if the mode is bad rather than IOError. +* Fix open() so it returns a ValueError if the mode is bad rather than IOError. (This probably affects lots of places, we should review the exceptions and fix them if inappropriate.)