Proposal: add sys to __builtins__

[tiissa]

Michael Hoffman wrote:
> To the contrary, I agree with Larry Wall that laziness is one of the 
> cardinal virtues of a programmer.

There's lazy and too lazy.
You don't want to be too lazy to even get out of bed to code in Python. 
Of course, with Perl, that's entirely another mattress^Wmatter.


> Would you argue that the language is superior because half of its 
> modules must have "import sys" at the beginning

I wouldn't dare arguing about superiority.

I was just stating your proposal didn't really solve anything. A good 
editor/template and .pythonrc already save you the typing of 'import 
sys' in scripts for the former and shell command for the latter.


> Sorry, that's incorrect

Alright, that was a bit of an overstatement.
I should have said your proposal is perceptibly useful in those shell 
one-liners. The distribution of script and modules is another matter.


As for my opinion, you've already guessed I don't perceive 'import sys' 
as an issue. Therefore, the special case of an implicit import of sys 
does not appeal to me.