[Python-Dev] Backporting PEP 3127 to trunk

[Georg Brandl]

Eric Smith schrieb:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> I wonder if, in order to change the behavior of various built-in
>> functions, it wouldn't be easier to be able to write
>> 
>> from future_builtins import oct, hex  # and who knows what else
> 
> This makes sense to me, especially if we have a 2to3 fixer which removes 
> this line.  I'll work on implementing future_builtins.

Will the future map and filter also belong there (and if they are imported
from future_builtins, 2to3 won't put a list() around them)?

Georg


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