Too much builtins (was Re: Python's simplicity philosophy

[Gerrit Holl]

Andrew Dalke wrote:
>   str(obj, [base=10]) -> converts integer objects (only!) to the given base,
>     defaults to base 10.

Well, str could be defined as follows:

def str(obj, **kwargs):
    return obj.__str__(**kwargs)

That doesn't feel too wrong to me.

yours,
Gerrit.

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