Re: [stdlib-sig] [Python-3000] Types and classes

On 03/04/2008, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Paul Prescod wrote:

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Also, could the types module be renamed "builtin_classes" or "core_classes" or something like that? It was always a weird name because it wasn't if it contained all of the types in a Python distribution. Just a set of core-to-the-implementation ones.

That's up to the stdlib reorg committee; my position has been for a long time that there shouldn't be a types module at all.

*If* it's to be renamed (which I have no strong opinion on) would making it sys.classes (or sys.types) be plausible? With the "sys = core" connotation, I find this better than an underscored name. Paul.