Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Roman Neuhauser]

> From: Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:33:31 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at mail.cz> wrote in 
> news:mailman.1020083690.16055.python-list at python.org:
> 
> >     __builtin__.chr(int) -> int.chr()
> >     __builtin__.abs(int) -> int.abs()
> >     __builtin__.ord(str) -> str.ord()
> >     etc
> > 
> 
> The problem with int.chr() is that a lot of people are going to get 
> confused when they find that "42.chr()" doesn't work (although "42 .chr()" 
> does).

    why? letters aren't valid decimal digits, are they?
 
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