
Aug. 22, 2001
11:55 a.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Again, I wasn't considering getting rid of old builtins. We're going to be adding new methods to all of the types anyway (since they'll derive from object), so I was just suggesting that len or length be an alias for __len__.
Hm, but this would violate TOOWTDI.
So do string methods =). --da