Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Tue Apr 30 07:45:34 EDT 2002


Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:
> 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).

What about "(42).chr"?  Wouldn't that work?  Seems a lot more natural than 
putting a space in there (which I didn't even realize was legal, and looks 
horrible to me).



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