[pypy-dev] __builtin__ module

[Armin Rigo]

Hello Scott,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:32:06PM -0500, Scott Fenton wrote:
> > Except that classmethod, staticmethod, and super could be done
> > in pure Python.  Aren't those even in Guido's descrintro??
> 
> They may well be. My point in writing some of __builtin__ was to
> get some inital code out there, not to draw a line in the sand.
> The next version will probably have some more stuff included in
> it.

Sure.  I was rather talking about the comments you added in the e-mail, where 
you say that some functions don't seem to be implementable.

About chr(i) vs. '%c'%i vs. '\x00\x01...\xFF'[i]:  what I feel this shows is 
that one of these solutions must be thought as the primitive way to build a 
character, and the others should use it; and I definitely feel that chr() is 
the primitive way to build a character.  Contrary to what I said in a previous 
e-mail I don't think that chr() should be implemented with '%c'%i.  On the 
other hand, I guess that the strings' % operator could nicely be implemented 
in pure Python.  It would then have to use chr() to implement the %c format 
code.  It looks more reasonable than the other way around.


A bientôt,

Armin.