[Python-Dev] Banishing apply(), buffer(), coerce(), and intern()

[Walter Dörwald]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> [...]
>>As always, be careful with doing peephole changes to the standard
>>library -- historically, we've seen a 1-5% error rate in these change
>>sets that persists for months or years afterwards.
> 
> FWIW, Walter and I did a bunch of these for Py2.3 and had excellent
> success because of a good process.

If you're willing to review the patch, I'm going to give it a try.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald