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

Barry Scott barry at barrys-emacs.org
Sat Nov 29 09:50:38 EST 2003


At 28-11-2003 19:49, you wrote:
>Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 07:26:15 +0100
>
> > After re-reading previous posts on the subject, I had an idea.  Let's
> > isolate these functions in the documentation into a separate section
> > following the rest of the builtins.

Is the `expr` worth banishing? I've never used it myself
because of the chance of misreading `expr` vs. 'expr'.
Isn't it a hard to read str()?

Note: I tried to find it in the language reference and its not in the index
but then neither is %.

Barry





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