[Python-Dev] towards a faster Python

[Guido van Rossum]

> I am talking about what mxTools is doing: adding new builtins to
> the interpreter by placing them into the __builtins__ dictionary.
> While I agree that it is usually better to use something like
> 'from x import *' or even naming the tools explicitly, some features
> in mxTools do warrant being made builtins, e.g. irange() has been
> most helpful in the past :-)

You're not going to convince me to endorse that practice.  End of story.

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