[Python-Dev] Classes that claim to be defined in __builtin__ but aren't

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Sun Aug 15 22:09:48 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

[SNIP]
> Bah.  The types module shouldn't be the "home" for any types -- it's
> just a collection of convenient aliases, and mostly they have the
> wrong names.  It should be deprecated.
> 

Well that settles that one.  Didn't know you wanted to deprecate 
'types'.  Then __builtin__ does seem to be the only logical place.

-Brett


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