[Python-Dev] Patch review: [ 1009811 ] Add missing types to __builtin__

[Alan Green]

Last August, James Knight posted to python-dev, "There's a fair number
of classes that claim they are defined in __builtin__, but do not
actually appear there". There was a discussion and James submitted
this patch:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1009811&group_id=5470&atid=305470

The final result of the discussion is unclear. Guido declared himself
+0.5 on the concept, but nobody has reviewed the patch in detail yet.

The original email thread starts here: 

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-August/047477.html

The patch still applies, and test cases still run OK afterwards.

Now that 2.4 has been released it is perhaps a good time to discuss in
on python-dev again. If it isn't discussed, then the patch should be
closed due to lack of interest.

Alan.
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