[Python-Dev] Re: [Python Dev] PEP 309

[Michael Chermside]

Nick Coghlan writes:
> I'm actually half-tempted to suggest that [map, filter and reduce] should be
> aliased in the functional module for 2.5 (in addition to being in builtins -
ala
> the contents of the exceptions module).

Well, I think it's a good idea, so I'll formally propose it! Let's alias
map, filter, and reduce into the functional module now that it exists.
This doesn't create any need or pressure to remove these as builtins, but
it does contemplate a day when we might choose to make such a choice.

-- Michael Chermside