I support PEP 326

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Tue Jan 27 23:10:23 EST 2004


>>> Jeremy Fincher wrote
> I simply can't understand this aversion to sticking useful things in
> the builtin namespace.  Especially when marginally useful things like
> reversed (a trivially written 3-line generator) have been put there.

>>> len(dir(__builtins__))
125

That's a _lot_ of stuff in one module. Even if you exclude the 40-odd 
exceptions that are there, that's still a lot of guff in one big flat
namespace.

Anthony






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