My own 12 points list

[Gerrit Holl]

A. Lloyd Flanagan wrote:
> pruebauno at latinmail.com (nnes) wrote in message news:<d8778a53.0308251600.143ec0a3 at posting.google.com>...
> > I have really no mayor gripes, and the few things I would change would
> > break backward compatibility, but here is the list anyway:
> > 
> > 3.) Eliminate open (), use file () instead
> open() is deprecated, I don't know about plans to eliminate it.

Doesn't 'deprecated' mean it will once be elimineted?

> > 5.) Eliminate built-in functions buffer(), callable(), delattr(),
> > dir(), getattr(), hasattr(), hash(), help(), id(), isinstance(),
> > len(), max(), min(), repr(),  setattr(), sum(), str(), type(),
> Many of these are being superseded by object meathods.  I don't know
> about eliminating them; you'd break nearly every old program.

Python 3.0...?

Gerrit.

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