May 30, 2002
1:42 p.m.
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:35:02AM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Some of these are new in 2.2 (like object, dict and file). Some of them used to be functions before Python 2.2 (like str, int and list). Three of them are still builtin functions in Python 2.2: xrange, buffer and slice. Perhaps they should also be converted to types for consistency.
You can help by contributing patches for these three. (Let us know if you plan to do this, so others can relax.)
Okay. It will probably take me 20 time longer than someone who knows his way better around the CPython sources, but I guest I gotta start somewhere. Oren