Third Draft: Pep for Deprecating Builtins

[James J. Besemer]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> I'm surprised you miss the main advantage -- 0666, the Number
> of the Beast in octal, translates to decimal 438, the A.D. in which
> Emperor Theodosius II promulgated the Theodosian Code, the
> wildly antisemitic laws which, among other things, forbid Christians
> to even give alms to Jews, forbid Jews to hold State office or build
> synagogues, condemned to death any Jew converting a Christian.
>
> Surely this is therefore a number which is often handy in the everyday
> practice of programming, and even thinking of eventually making a
> non-builtin of the precious Python function that helps us work with a
> numbering system which has such wondrous properties is unholy.

It also opens your Unix files up to abuse by others.

;o)

--jb

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