From: Aahz [mailto:aahz@pythoncraft.com]

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So I'd actually advocate enhancing intern(), rather than removing it, now that interned things are mortal.

Agreed. But intern() should *not* be a builtin function. It belongs in sys.

Hmm - not so sure about sys, but I agree it could quite well be moved out of builtins. I don't feel it belongs in sys because it has nothing to do with the environment that python is running in. Instead it has to do with object management. Tim Delaney