Jan. 1, 2003
6:19 p.m.
Hey, if we'll killing off builtins, I vote for apply().
Agreed, it's redundant. You can help by checking in documentation that marks it as deprecated and code that adds a PendingDeprecationWarning to it (unfortunately it's so common that I wouldn't want to risk a plain DeprecationWarning). BTW, I recently find myself longing for an extension of the *args, **kw syntax, as follows: foo(1, 2, 3, *args, 5, 6, 7, **kw) ^^^^^^^ This part is currently not allowed. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)