[Python-3000] the types module

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Feb 12 03:26:01 CET 2007


Well, I would surely love to see it replaced by something more reasonable.

Collecting type objects together just on the basis that they are all
built-in type objects was a bad idea.

I still hope to do something about Bill Janssen's ABC proposal. But
that will have to wait until after PyCon.

--Guido

On 2/11/07, Collin Winter <collinw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Brett Cannon schrieb:
> > > This has come up before on python-dev, IIRC.  Double-check the archives.
> >
> > More specifically, see PEP 294. It claims the types module will be
> > removed in Python 3000.
>
> Is removing the types module still a goal? It's not mentioned in
> either PEP 3100 or 3108.

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