[Python-ideas] Deprecate the round builtin

[Daniel Holth]

Normally deprecation means you keep it forever but don't mention it much in
the docs...
On Sep 26, 2012 5:16 PM, "Mark Adam" <dreamingforward at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On the other hand, having round with a second parameter to return a
> Decimal
> > would be quite usefull. I can't see a way of changing the type returned
> > by the built-in round without crashing half the World --- but maybe it
> would
> > be possible to deprecate only the two-parameter form of the built-in
> round,
> > and add a decimal.round Decimal factory?
>
> On second thought, the idea of "namespaces" within the interpreter
> (like Tim Peters was suggesting I think in the doctest module) could
> put some order to built-ins and globals within the interpreter.
> round(), hex() and others could be in the namespace "Numbers" (Named
> by their associated type), similarly for the other type-specific
> builtins.
>
> Create a keyword "expose" to dump a particular namespace into the
> global scope when you don't want to type "Numbers.round(f)".
>
> Thoughts?
>
> markj
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