[Python-Dev] PEP 303: Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Thu, 02 Jan 2003 00:34:35 +0100


Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Tim]
> 
>>    TP> If we have to drop a builtin, I never liked reduce <wink>,
>>    TP> although Jeremy pointed out that its most common use case no
>>    TP> longer requires writing a lambda, or importing operator.add:
> 
> [Barry]
> 
>>Hey, if we'll killing off builtins, I vote for apply().
> 
> buffer() and intern() are two candidates for least understood,
> least used, and most likely not to be missed.

Hey, this is (or was) January 1st, not April 1st.

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