Checking the boolean value of a collection

[Fredrik Lundh]

D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Is there ever any advantage to having something as a builtin rather
> than as a regular user method?  What difference does it make to the
> running script?  I can see that adding "bar" from module "foo" to
> "__builtins__" means that you can use "bar()" instead of "foo.bar()".
> Is that the only benefit?

basically, yes.  in this case, it does make some sense to patch any/all 
into __builtin__, since they are builtins in a later version.

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