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

[Guido van Rossum]

I nearly choked on my coffee when I read the "naming rights" suggestion. :-)

Then I started leaning towards __universal__.


But then I thought, what if we renamed the __builtin__ module instead
to builtins, and left __builtins__ alone?

In Python 0.1, __builtin__ *was* called builtin, and I think the
reason for renaming it wasn't particularly well thought-out; as a
*module*, I'm not sure that it really needs to have such a special
name (I don't think it's more special than sys, anyway). There's no
motivation in the checkin comment that renamed it (r3527).

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