[Python-Dev] 'new' and 'types'

[Guido van Rossum]

> For the types module I have a pending patch but I guess it won't
> sneak into the CVS without a PEP. It requires general agreement that
> it's a bad thing for types to have two names, that the long names
> should be deprecated and that the right place for short names that
> are not builtins is in the types module.

FWIW, *I* agree with that.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)