Raymond Hettinger wrote:
[Tim]
TP> If we have to drop a builtin, I never liked reduce <wink>, TP> although Jeremy pointed out that its most common use case no TP> longer requires writing a lambda, or importing operator.add:
[Barry]
Hey, if we'll killing off builtins, I vote for apply().
buffer() and intern() are two candidates for least understood, least used, and most likely not to be missed.
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