[Python-Dev] [poll] New name for __builtins__

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Dec 1 00:18:46 CET 2007


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On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2007 2:17 PM, Nicko van Someren <nicko at nicko.org> wrote:
>> +1 for __universal__
>
> It's almost as if nobody has seen my proposal to leave __builtins__
> alone and rename the __builtin__ module instead.

Hi Guido,

I saw it, and I like that change much better!  There's no real need  
to underscorify the module name.

- -Barry

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