Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Duncan Booth]

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).

42 .__abs__() already works. :-)
-42 .__abs__() also works, but again the result might surprise some people 
if they expected it to be the same as int.__abs__(-42)

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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