Raymond wrote:
I. eval() to accept custom mapping arguments for globals and locals. This makes it possible to write a smart __getitem__ method for applications like spreadsheets or case-insensitive evaluation.
+0. if you can do it without affecting performance in the dictionary case, that is. -1 if you can't.
II. Timer.timeit to take an optional context argument.
+1
III. enumerate to take an optional argument:
+0 (it's not that hard or expensive to add an offset inside the loop)
IV. list.sorted() to become just sorted(). All of the common use cases read better without the "list." prefix:
+1 one more: V. a join() builtin (join(x,s) becomes s.join(x)). All of the common sep.join() use cases read better without the string literal prefix. (I'll leave the rest for later) </F>