[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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