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

[Walter Dörwald]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> [...]
>>>FWIW, Walter and I did a bunch of these for Py2.3 and had excellent
>>>success because of a good process.
> 
> [Walter]
> 
>>If you're willing to review the patch, I'm going to give it a try.
> 
> The honor of second review should go to Anthony ;-)  This is his itch.
> If a third review is needed to make it error free, I would be happy to
> accommodate.

OK, the patch is done (http://www.python.org/sf/852334) and assigned
to Anthony.

I couldn't upload the patch itself, as it's too big, so the patch can
be found at http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/backticks2repr.txt

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald