On Aug 10, 2004, at 8:02 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Sooo should (for 'generator' in objects that claim to be in __builtins__ but aren't), 1) 'generator' be added to __builtins__ 2) 'generator' be added to types.py and its __module__ be set to 'types' 3) 'generator' be added to <newmodule>.py and its __module__ be set to '<newmodule>' (and a name for the module chosen)
I guess (1).
Please submit a patch to SF...
Okay, so, I don't have a patch, but I have made a script to examine the situation. It seems the problem is a little more widespread than I had realized. I grepped through the python C source to find all the type objects, and then verified their existence. Just looking at Objects/*.c, there are 31 classes without appropriate bindings. Additionally, some aren't even valid identifier names. It seems like there's 4 categories here: iterators, descrobject stuffs, list comparison wrappers, and other. I'm not sure it's a good idea to add all these names to the builtins -- perhaps only the ones in the 'other' group? For {Modules,Mac,PC,RISCOS,Python}/*.c, most seem like they could relatively straightforwardly be added to their module, but I haven't examined them too closely. Some likely ought to have constructors added (e.g. the dl.dl('file') could be equivalent to dl.open('file')). __builtin__.dictionary-keyiterator not found (./Objects/dictobject.c) __builtin__.dictionary-valueiterator not found (./Objects/dictobject.c) __builtin__.dictionary-itemiterator not found (./Objects/dictobject.c) __builtin__.tupleiterator not found (./Objects/tupleobject.c) __builtin__.rangeiterator not found (./Objects/rangeobject.c) __builtin__.iterator not found (./Objects/iterobject.c) __builtin__.callable-iterator not found (./Objects/iterobject.c) __builtin__.listiterator not found (./Objects/listobject.c) __builtin__.listreverseiterator not found (./Objects/listobject.c) __builtin__.method_descriptor not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) __builtin__.classmethod_descriptor not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) __builtin__.member_descriptor not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) __builtin__.getset_descriptor not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) __builtin__.wrapper_descriptor not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) __builtin__.method-wrapper not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) __builtin__.sortwrapper not found (./Objects/listobject.c) __builtin__.cmpwrapper not found (./Objects/listobject.c) __builtin__.ellipsis not found (./Objects/sliceobject.c) types.EllipsisType __builtin__.builtin_function_or_method not found (./Objects/methodobject.c) types.BuiltinFunctionType types.BuiltinMethodType __builtin__.dictproxy not found (./Objects/descrobject.c) types.DictProxyType __builtin__.generator not found (./Objects/genobject.c) types.GeneratorType __builtin__.PyCObject not found (./Objects/cobject.c) __builtin__.classobj not found (./Objects/classobject.c) types.ClassType __builtin__.instance not found (./Objects/classobject.c) types.InstanceType __builtin__.instancemethod not found (./Objects/classobject.c) types.MethodType types.UnboundMethodType __builtin__.cell not found (./Objects/cellobject.c) __builtin__.NoneType not found (./Objects/object.c) types.NoneType __builtin__.NotImplementedType not found (./Objects/object.c) types.NotImplementedType __builtin__.frame not found (./Objects/frameobject.c) types.FrameType __builtin__.function not found (./Objects/funcobject.c) types.FunctionType types.LambdaType __builtin__.module not found (./Objects/moduleobject.c) types.ModuleType (the Mac ones I checked on my mac w/ python 2.3.0) _Qt.IdleManager not found (./Mac/Modules/qt/_Qtmodule.c) _Qt.SGOutput not found (./Mac/Modules/qt/_Qtmodule.c) module _OSA not installed (./Mac/Modules/osa/_OSAmodule.c) Nav.NavReplyRecord not found (./Mac/Modules/Nav.c) _Scrap.Scrap not found (./Mac/Modules/scrap/_Scrapmodule.c) module waste not installed (./Mac/Modules/waste/wastemodule.c) MacOS.ResourceFork not found (./Mac/Modules/macosmodule.c) icglue.ic_instance not found (./Mac/Modules/icgluemodule.c) __builtin__.PyHKEY not found (./PC/_winreg.c) __builtin__.drawf not found (./RISCOS/Modules/drawfmodule.c) __builtin__.block not found (./RISCOS/Modules/swimodule.c) __builtin__.traceback not found (./Python/traceback.c) types.TracebackType __builtin__.code not found (./Python/compile.c) types.CodeType __builtin__.symtable entry not found (./Python/symtable.c) __builtin__.tktimertoken not found (./Modules/_tkinter.c) __builtin__.tkapp not found (./Modules/_tkinter.c) __builtin__.arrayiterator not found (./Modules/arraymodule.c) _curses_panel.curses panel not found (./Modules/_curses_panel.c) linuxaudiodev.linux_audio_device not found (./Modules/linuxaudiodev.c) module fl not installed (./Modules/flmodule.c) __builtin__.DB not found (./Modules/_bsddb.c) __builtin__.DBCursor not found (./Modules/_bsddb.c) __builtin__.DBEnv not found (./Modules/_bsddb.c) __builtin__.DBTxn not found (./Modules/_bsddb.c) __builtin__.DBLock not found (./Modules/_bsddb.c) sha.SHA not found (./Modules/shamodule.c) module sv not installed (./Modules/svmodule.c) itertools._grouper not found (./Modules/itertoolsmodule.c) itertools.tee_dataobject not found (./Modules/itertoolsmodule.c) rotor.rotor not found (./Modules/rotormodule.c) module cl not installed (./Modules/clmodule.c) _sre.SRE_Pattern not found (./Modules/_sre.c) _sre.SRE_Match not found (./Modules/_sre.c) _sre.SRE_Scanner not found (./Modules/_sre.c) socket.SSL not found (./Modules/_ssl.c) _curses.curses window not found (./Modules/_cursesmodule.c) parser.st not found (./Modules/parsermodule.c) cStringIO.StringO not found (./Modules/cStringIO.c) cStringIO.StringI not found (./Modules/cStringIO.c) module sunaudiodev not installed (./Modules/sunaudiodev.c) module dbm not installed (./Modules/dbmmodule.c) dl.dl not found (./Modules/dlmodule.c) module fm not installed (./Modules/fmmodule.c) regex.regex not found (./Modules/regexmodule.c) pyexpat.xmlparser not found (./Modules/pyexpat.c) __builtin__.MultibyteCodec not found (./Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c) __builtin__.MultibyteStreamReader not found (./Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c) __builtin__.MultibyteStreamWriter not found (./Modules/cjkcodecs/multibytecodec.c) bsddb.bsddb not found (./Modules/bsddbmodule.c) module cd not installed (./Modules/cdmodule.c) cPickle.Pdata not found (./Modules/cPickle.c) module al not installed (./Modules/almodule.c) __builtin__.deque_iterator not found (./Modules/collectionsmodule.c) __builtin__.deque_reverse_iterator not found (./Modules/collectionsmodule.c) thread.lock not found (./Modules/threadmodule.c) zlib.Compress not found (./Modules/zlibmodule.c) zlib.Decompress not found (./Modules/zlibmodule.c) gdbm.gdbm not found (./Modules/gdbmmodule.c) ossaudiodev.oss_audio_device not found (./Modules/ossaudiodev.c) ossaudiodev.oss_mixer_device not found (./Modules/ossaudiodev.c)